Country · 5 regions
Where Rwanda's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Rwanda. By land, Kigali City holds 2.9%. By people, it holds 13%. Eastern goes the other way, from 37% of the land to 30% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern | 37 | 30 | 19 |
| Southern | 23 | 22 | 16 |
| Western | 24 | 22 | 15 |
| Kigali City | 2.9 | 13 | 42 |
| Northern | 13 | 13 | 8.3 |
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.