Country · 37 regions
Where Nigeria's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Nigeria. By land, Lagos holds 0.40%. By people, it holds 5.4%. Niger goes the other way, from 8.2% of the land to 2.8% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kano | 2.1 | 6.8 | 5.6 |
| Lagos | 0.40 | 5.4 | 11 |
| Kaduna | 5.0 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
| Katsina | 2.8 | 4.1 | 3.6 |
| Oyo | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.6 |
| Rivers | 0.90 | 4.0 | 6.3 |
| Bauchi | 5.7 | 3.4 | 1.6 |
| Anambra | 0.50 | 3.3 | 5.1 |
| Akwa Ibom | 0.80 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
| Delta | 1.7 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
| Benue | 3.4 | 3.0 | 2.7 |
| Jigawa | 2.5 | 3.0 | 1.4 |
| Borno | 7.8 | 2.9 | 1.8 |
| Imo | 0.70 | 2.8 | 3.3 |
| Niger | 8.2 | 2.8 | 2.3 |
| Ogun | 1.9 | 2.8 | 3.4 |
| Sokoto | 3.6 | 2.6 | 2.2 |
| Kogi | 3.2 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| Osun | 1.0 | 2.5 | 2.7 |
| Enugu | 0.70 | 2.3 | 2.1 |
| Kebbi | 3.7 | 2.3 | 1.7 |
| Ondo | 1.7 | 2.3 | 2.5 |
| Zamfara | 3.5 | 2.3 | 1.7 |
| Abia | 0.60 | 2.2 | 2.5 |
| Edo | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.5 |
| Plateau | 3.0 | 2.2 | 1.2 |
| Adamawa | 3.8 | 2.1 | 1.1 |
| Cross River | 2.5 | 1.9 | 1.7 |
| Yobe | 4.9 | 1.8 | 0.90 |
| Ekiti | 0.60 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Gombe | 2.1 | 1.7 | 0.80 |
| Kwara | 3.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 |
| Ebonyi | 0.80 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
| Taraba | 6.7 | 1.6 | 0.70 |
| Federal Capital Territory | 0.80 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
| Nassarawa | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.80 |
| Bayelsa | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.5 |
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.