Country · 20 regions
Where Portugal's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Portugal. By land, Lisboa holds 3.1%. By people, it holds 22%. Beja goes the other way, from 11% of the land to 1.4% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lisboa | 3.1 | 22 | 29 |
| Porto | 2.6 | 17 | 16 |
| Setúbal | 5.5 | 8.8 | 11 |
| Braga | 2.8 | 8.1 | 6.1 |
| Aveiro | 3.0 | 6.9 | 5.8 |
| Leiria | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.0 |
| Coimbra | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.4 |
| Faro | 5.7 | 4.2 | 4.5 |
| Santarém | 7.3 | 4.2 | 3.6 |
| Viseu | 5.6 | 3.6 | 2.6 |
| Madeira | 1.0 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
| Azores | 2.6 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
| Viana do Castelo | 2.5 | 2.3 | 1.7 |
| Castelo Branco | 7.2 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
| Vila Real | 4.6 | 1.8 | 1.1 |
| Évora | 8.0 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
| Guarda | 6.2 | 1.5 | 0.90 |
| Beja | 11 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| Bragança | 7.0 | 1.1 | 0.90 |
| Portalegre | 6.7 | 1.0 | 0.80 |
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.