Country · 11 regions
Where North Korea's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of North Korea. By land, P'yŏngyang holds 2.2%. By people, it holds 14%. Ryanggang goes the other way, from 11% of the land to 3.0% of the people.
GDP for North Korea is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| P'yŏngan-namdo | 9.8 | 16 | 14 |
| P'yŏngyang | 2.2 | 14 | 21 |
| Hamgyŏng-namdo | 15 | 13 | 9.9 |
| P'yŏngan-bukto | 10 | 12 | 14 |
| Hwanghae-namdo | 6.8 | 10 | 7.5 |
| Hwanghae-bukto | 7.5 | 9.7 | 8.2 |
| Hamgyŏng-bukto | 14 | 9.3 | 9.2 |
| Kangwŏn-do | 9.3 | 6.3 | 4.5 |
| Chagang-do | 13 | 6.1 | 5.5 |
| Ryanggang | 11 | 3.0 | 6.2 |
| Rasŏn | 0.69 | 0.80 | 0.60 |
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.