Country · 14 regions
Where Nepal's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Nepal. By land, Bagmati holds 6.2%. By people, it holds 17%. Karnali goes the other way, from 14% of the land to 0.50% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bagmati | 6.2 | 17 | 23 |
| Narayani | 6.2 | 14 | 16 |
| Bhojpur | 6.7 | 12 | 14 |
| Lumbini | 6.1 | 10 | 9.0 |
| Janakpur | 6.8 | 9.4 | 9.6 |
| Seti | 8.9 | 7.1 | 5.4 |
| Sagarmatha | 7.1 | 6.3 | 4.1 |
| Mahakali | 4.7 | 5.6 | 3.8 |
| Bheri | 7.5 | 5.0 | 4.2 |
| Rapti | 7.0 | 4.6 | 2.8 |
| Mechi | 5.2 | 4.3 | 3.0 |
| Gandaki | 8.1 | 3.9 | 3.5 |
| Dhawalagiri | 5.4 | 0.80 | 1.0 |
| Karnali | 14 | 0.50 | 0.50 |
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.