Country · 12 regions
Where Panama's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Panama. By land, Panama holds 16%. By people, it holds 55%. Darién goes the other way, from 16% of the land to 1.2% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Panama | 16 | 55 | 71 |
| Chiriquí | 9.0 | 11 | 4.3 |
| Colón | 6.6 | 6.2 | 15 |
| Coclé | 6.5 | 6.1 | 2.7 |
| Veraguas | 15 | 5.7 | 2.2 |
| Ngöbe Buglé | 8.1 | 4.6 | 1.1 |
| Bocas del Toro | 5.8 | 4.0 | 1.7 |
| Herrera | 3.3 | 2.8 | 1.4 |
| Los Santos | 5.1 | 2.0 | 0.90 |
| Darién | 16 | 1.2 | 0.30 |
| Emberá | 5.4 | 0.30 | 0.10 |
| Kuna Yala | 3.3 | 0.30 | 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.