Continent · 7 countries
Where Oceania's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Oceania. By land, Papua New Guinea holds 5.5%. By people, it holds 15%. Australia goes the other way, from 90% of the land to 75% of the people. By GDP, Australia punches above its population: 75% of the people, 92% of the economy.
| Country | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 90 | 75 | 92 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5.5 | 15 | 1.2 |
| New Zealand | 3.4 | 7.0 | 6.6 |
| Fiji | 0.29 | 1.2 | 0.30 |
| Solomon Islands | 0.20 | 1.1 | 0.10 |
| New Caledonia | 0.20 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
| Vanuatu | 0.10 | 0.40 | 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.