Country · 5 regions
Where French Polynesia's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of French Polynesia. By land, Windward Islands holds 35%. By people, it holds 88%. Marquesas Islands goes the other way, from 32% of the land to 2.8% of the people.
GDP for French Polynesia is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windward Islands | 35 | 88 | 94 |
| Leeward Islands | 10 | 7.5 | 3.1 |
| Marquesas Islands | 32 | 2.8 | 1.6 |
| Tuamotu-Gambier | 19 | 0.80 | 0.60 |
| Austral Islands | 3.3 | 0.50 | 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.