Country · 8 regions
Where Niger's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Niger. By land, Maradi holds 3.4%. By people, it holds 19%. Agadez goes the other way, from 53% of the land to 2.8% of the people. By GDP, Niamey punches above its population: 6.0% of the people, 17% of the economy.
GDP for Niger is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zinder | 12 | 22 | 20 |
| Tahoua | 8.5 | 21 | 20 |
| Maradi | 3.4 | 19 | 16 |
| Tillabéri | 8.0 | 14 | 12 |
| Dosso | 2.8 | 10 | 8.6 |
| Niamey | 0.00 | 6.0 | 17 |
| Diffa | 13 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| Agadez | 53 | 2.8 | 2.9 |
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.