Country · 22 regions
Where Mongolia's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Mongolia. By land, Ulaanbaatar holds 0.40%. By people, it holds 52%. Govi-Altay goes the other way, from 9.3% of the land to 1.5% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ulaanbaatar | 0.40 | 52 | 66 |
| Orhon | 0.00 | 3.5 | 4.3 |
| Hövsgöl | 6.5 | 3.3 | 1.4 |
| Ömnögovi | 10 | 3.3 | 4.2 |
| Selenge | 2.6 | 3.2 | 2.0 |
| Darhan-Uul | 0.40 | 3.1 | 1.5 |
| Dornogovi | 7.4 | 3.0 | 2.2 |
| Övörhangay | 4.0 | 3.0 | 1.5 |
| Bayan-Ölgiy | 3.0 | 2.7 | 0.99 |
| Töv | 4.5 | 2.5 | 3.0 |
| Arhangay | 3.5 | 2.4 | 1.3 |
| Bayanhongor | 7.7 | 2.3 | 1.2 |
| Dornod | 7.8 | 2.1 | 1.7 |
| Hentiy | 5.3 | 2.0 | 1.1 |
| Hovd | 4.7 | 1.9 | 0.89 |
| Sühbaatar | 5.7 | 1.6 | 0.99 |
| Uvs | 4.4 | 1.6 | 0.79 |
| Bulgan | 3.0 | 1.5 | 0.79 |
| Govi-Altay | 9.3 | 1.5 | 0.89 |
| Dzavhan | 5.2 | 1.4 | 0.79 |
| Govĭ-Sümber | 0.00 | 1.4 | 1.8 |
| Dundgovi | 4.9 | 0.90 | 0.49 |
How the map is made
Regions are drawn on an equal-area grid of about 1,000 blocks. For land, each region keeps the blocks its territory covers. For people and GDP, the country is reshaped so every region gets a whole number of blocks in proportion to its share (Hamilton's largest-remainder method), keeping neighbours next to each other. Then every block is matched to one block on the next map, so you watch the same thousand blocks rearrange.
Grids: popgrid by Josep Ferrer (MIT). Boundaries: Natural Earth. Population: national censuses where curated, GHS-POP 2025 (JRC, European Commission) elsewhere. GDP: Kummu et al. 2025 gridded GDP PPP (CC BY 4.0). Built by Crafter Station.