Land vs People

Country · 85 regions

Where Russian Federation's land ends up, by people and by money

Every block on the map is 0.1% of Russian Federation. By land, Moskva holds 0.10%. By people, it holds 8.7%. Sakha (Yakutia) goes the other way, from 18% of the land to 0.60% of the people.

Share of Russian Federation by region, in percent
RegionLandPeopleGDP
Moskva0.108.718
Moskovskaya0.205.86.4
Krasnodar0.493.82.6
City of St. Petersburg0.003.65.3
Bashkortostan0.882.92.0
Sverdlovsk1.12.92.6
Rostov0.682.81.6
Tatarstan0.392.73.0
Dagestan0.292.50.89
Chelyabinsk0.392.31.6
Samara0.292.21.8
Nizhegorod0.392.11.6
Krasnoyarsk142.02.8
Stavropol'0.392.00.89
Novosibirsk1.11.91.5
Kemerovo0.591.81.1
Perm'0.981.71.5
Volgograd0.491.70.99
Irkutsk4.41.61.6
Saratov0.591.60.79
Voronezh0.291.61.1
Altay0.881.50.60
Leningrad0.491.51.6
Omsk0.781.30.79
Orenburg0.681.31.1
Primor'ye1.11.31.1
Crimea0.101.20.30
Khanty-Mansiy3.01.24.9
Belgorod0.201.11.1
Chechnya0.101.10.30
Tyumen'0.981.13.9
Udmurt0.201.00.79
Khabarovsk4.70.900.79
Penza0.290.900.50
Tula0.200.900.60
Tver'0.490.900.50
Vladimir0.100.900.79
Bryansk0.200.800.40
Chuvash0.100.800.60
Kirov0.780.800.40
Lipetsk0.200.800.70
Ryazan'0.290.800.40
Ul'yanovsk0.200.800.40
Vologda0.980.800.60
Yaroslavl'0.100.800.60
Arkhangel'sk2.50.700.79
Astrakhan'0.290.700.70
Chita2.30.700.40
Ivanovo0.200.700.30
Kaliningrad0.200.700.50
Kaluga0.200.700.60
Kursk0.200.700.50
Tambov0.200.700.40
Tomsk1.90.700.70
Buryat2.00.600.30
Kabardin-Balkar0.000.600.20
Mordovia0.200.600.30
Sakha (Yakutia)180.601.2
Smolensk0.290.600.40
Amur2.10.500.40
Komi2.40.500.70
Kurgan0.490.500.20
Mariy-El0.000.500.30
Murmansk1.20.500.60
North Ossetia0.100.500.20
Orel0.100.500.30
Karachay-Cherkess0.100.400.10
Karelia1.10.400.30
Kostroma0.290.400.20
Novgorod0.490.400.20
Pskov0.290.400.20
Yamal-Nenets4.10.403.4
Adygey0.000.300.10
Ingush0.000.300.10
Sakhalin0.680.300.99
Kalmyk0.390.200.10
Kamchatka2.60.200.30
Khakass0.390.200.20
Sevastopol0.000.200.10
Tuva0.980.200.10
Gorno-Altay0.490.100.10
Maga Buryatdan2.80.100.20
Yevrey0.290.100.10
Chukchi Autonomous Okrug4.60.000.00
Nenets1.20.000.30

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.