Country · 16 regions
Where Palau's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Palau. By land, Koror holds 12%. By people, it holds 48%. Ngeremlengui goes the other way, from 14% of the land to 0.40% of the people.
GDP for Palau is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koror | 12 | 48 | 54 |
| Airai | 10 | 20 | 23 |
| Melekeok | 3.4 | 6.6 | 4.4 |
| Peleliu | 4.6 | 5.3 | 4.7 |
| Aimeliik | 8.6 | 4.9 | 3.7 |
| Kayangel | 2.5 | 3.2 | 0.00 |
| Ngatpang | 8.1 | 2.5 | 1.9 |
| Ngiwal | 4.7 | 2.1 | 1.3 |
| Ngarchelong | 2.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 |
| Ngchesar | 6.3 | 2.0 | 1.4 |
| Ngaraard | 6.2 | 1.9 | 1.5 |
| Angaur | 3.7 | 0.50 | 0.40 |
| Ngeremlengui | 14 | 0.40 | 0.40 |
| Ngardmau | 6.9 | 0.30 | 0.20 |
| Hatobohei | 5.8 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sonsorol | 0.30 | 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.