Country · 17 regions
Where Nicaragua's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Nicaragua. By land, Managua holds 3.5%. By people, it holds 25%. Atlántico Norte goes the other way, from 25% of the land to 9.0% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Managua | 3.5 | 25 | 37 |
| Matagalpa | 6.8 | 10 | 7.9 |
| Atlántico Norte | 25 | 9.0 | 6.9 |
| Jinotega | 7.2 | 8.3 | 6.1 |
| Chinandega | 3.7 | 5.7 | 4.9 |
| León | 4.0 | 5.5 | 4.6 |
| Atlántico Sur | 20 | 5.2 | 3.2 |
| Masaya | 0.30 | 5.1 | 6.3 |
| Nueva Segovia | 2.7 | 4.3 | 4.2 |
| Estelí | 1.9 | 3.6 | 3.3 |
| Carazo | 1.0 | 2.9 | 3.2 |
| Rivas | 3.9 | 2.7 | 2.8 |
| Granada | 2.1 | 2.6 | 3.4 |
| Madriz | 1.4 | 2.6 | 1.4 |
| Boaco | 3.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 |
| Chontales | 5.7 | 2.3 | 1.6 |
| Rio San Juan | 7.3 | 2.3 | 1.0 |
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.