Country · 13 regions
Where Saudi Arabia's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Saudi Arabia. By land, Makkah holds 7.1%. By people, it holds 27%. Ash Sharqiyah goes the other way, from 29% of the land to 14% of the people. By GDP, Ar Riyad punches above its population: 29% of the people, 40% of the economy.
GDP for Saudi Arabia is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ar Riyad | 19 | 29 | 40 |
| Makkah | 7.1 | 27 | 29 |
| Ash Sharqiyah | 29 | 14 | 10 |
| Al Madinah | 7.5 | 6.8 | 5.4 |
| `Asir | 4.2 | 5.6 | 3.0 |
| Jizan | 0.90 | 3.8 | 2.3 |
| Al Quassim | 3.0 | 3.6 | 2.9 |
| Tabuk | 5.2 | 2.8 | 2.0 |
| Najran | 4.4 | 2.1 | 1.6 |
| Ha'il | 6.2 | 1.6 | 1.0 |
| Al Jawf | 6.5 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
| Al Bahah | 0.50 | 1.1 | 0.50 |
| Al Hudud ash Shamaliyah | 6.4 | 1.1 | 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.