Country · 16 regions
Where Malaysia's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Malaysia. By land, Selangor holds 2.2%. By people, it holds 24%. Sarawak goes the other way, from 38% of the land to 8.1% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selangor | 2.2 | 24 | 34 |
| Johor | 5.9 | 12 | 9.8 |
| Sabah | 23 | 10 | 4.8 |
| Sarawak | 38 | 8.1 | 8.5 |
| Perak | 6.1 | 7.9 | 5.3 |
| Kuala Lumpur | 0.10 | 6.3 | 15 |
| Kedah | 3.2 | 6.2 | 3.0 |
| Pahang | 11 | 5.0 | 3.9 |
| Kelantan | 4.7 | 4.9 | 1.5 |
| Pulau Pinang | 0.20 | 4.9 | 5.6 |
| Terengganu | 3.9 | 3.3 | 2.0 |
| Negeri Sembilan | 2.2 | 3.1 | 2.8 |
| Melaka | 0.50 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| Perlis | 0.20 | 0.70 | 0.30 |
| Putrajaya | 0.00 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| Labuan | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.40 |
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.