Country · 20 regions
Where Papua New Guinea's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Papua New Guinea. By land, Western Highlands holds 1.8%. By people, it holds 12%. Western goes the other way, from 21% of the land to 1.9% of the people. By GDP, National Capital District punches above its population: 5.2% of the people, 14% of the economy.
GDP for Papua New Guinea is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Highlands | 5.5 | 16 | 12 |
| Western Highlands | 1.8 | 12 | 18 |
| Eastern Highlands | 2.3 | 8.4 | 11 |
| Morobe | 7.4 | 7.9 | 5.1 |
| Enga | 2.6 | 7.8 | 5.3 |
| Chimbu | 1.4 | 6.9 | 9.3 |
| Madang | 6.3 | 5.9 | 4.4 |
| East Sepik | 9.6 | 5.7 | 3.7 |
| National Capital District | 0.10 | 5.2 | 14 |
| Central | 6.5 | 3.1 | 4.3 |
| East New Britain | 3.3 | 3.1 | 2.0 |
| Sandaun | 7.7 | 2.9 | 1.8 |
| North Solomons | 1.9 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
| West New Britain | 4.1 | 2.7 | 1.2 |
| Northern | 5.2 | 2.5 | 1.3 |
| Milne Bay | 3.3 | 2.4 | 1.4 |
| Western | 21 | 1.9 | 1.3 |
| New Ireland | 2.5 | 1.4 | 0.80 |
| Gulf | 7.1 | 1.1 | 0.60 |
| Manus | 0.50 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
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.