Country · 14 regions
Where Netherlands' land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Netherlands. By land, Zuid-Holland holds 8.7%. By people, it holds 21%. Friesland goes the other way, from 11% of the land to 3.7% of the people. By GDP, Noord-Holland punches above its population: 17% of the people, 21% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zuid-Holland | 8.7 | 21 | 20 |
| Noord-Holland | 9.3 | 17 | 21 |
| Noord-Brabant | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| Gelderland | 14 | 12 | 11 |
| Utrecht | 3.7 | 7.8 | 9.3 |
| Overijssel | 8.9 | 6.7 | 5.9 |
| Limburg | 5.6 | 6.4 | 5.3 |
| Friesland | 11 | 3.7 | 2.8 |
| Groningen | 6.4 | 3.4 | 2.9 |
| Drenthe | 6.8 | 2.8 | 2.1 |
| Flevoland | 6.1 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
| Zeeland | 5.6 | 2.2 | 1.7 |
| Bonaire | 0.89 | 0.10 | 0.00 |
| St. Eustatius | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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.