Continent · 18 countries
Where North America's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of North America. By land, United States of America holds 42%. By people, it holds 56%. Canada goes the other way, from 42% of the land to 6.3% of the people.
| Country | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States of America | 42 | 56 | 80 |
| Mexico | 9.6 | 22 | 8.8 |
| Canada | 42 | 6.3 | 6.9 |
| Guatemala | 0.58 | 3.1 | 0.70 |
| Dominican Republic | 0.10 | 1.9 | 0.90 |
| Haiti | 0.39 | 1.9 | 0.10 |
| Cuba | 0.39 | 1.8 | 0.70 |
| Honduras | 0.48 | 1.8 | 0.20 |
| Nicaragua | 0.77 | 1.2 | 0.20 |
| El Salvador | 0.00 | 1.1 | 0.20 |
| Costa Rica | 0.39 | 0.90 | 0.40 |
| Panama | 0.48 | 0.70 | 0.50 |
| Jamaica | 0.10 | 0.50 | 0.10 |
| Puerto Rico | 0.10 | 0.50 | 0.40 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.20 |
| Belize | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.00 |
| The Bahamas | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.00 |
| Greenland | 2.4 | 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.