Country · 17 regions
Where Philippines' land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Philippines. By land, National Capital Region holds 0.40%. By people, it holds 13%. Dinagat Islands (Region XIII) goes the other way, from 6.4% of the land to 0.10% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALABARZON (Region IV-A) | 5.6 | 15 | 12 |
| National Capital Region | 0.40 | 13 | 30 |
| Central Luzon (Region III) | 7.0 | 12 | 8.2 |
| Central Visayas (Region VII) | 5.2 | 7.6 | 7.4 |
| Western Visayas (Region VI) | 6.8 | 7.5 | 3.5 |
| Bicol (Region V) | 6.2 | 5.7 | 2.4 |
| Ilocos (Region I) | 4.8 | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Davao (Region XI) | 6.5 | 4.9 | 7.8 |
| Northern Mindanao (Region X) | 6.1 | 4.7 | 6.0 |
| SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII) | 6.3 | 4.6 | 5.3 |
| Eastern Visayas (Region VIII) | 6.6 | 4.3 | 2.0 |
| Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) | 4.3 | 4.1 | 1.5 |
| Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX) | 4.9 | 3.7 | 2.6 |
| Cagayan Valley (Region II) | 9.2 | 3.5 | 2.3 |
| MIMAROPA (Region IV-B) | 8.4 | 3.0 | 1.4 |
| Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) | 5.8 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| Dinagat Islands (Region XIII) | 6.4 | 0.10 | 2.1 |
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.