Country · 10 regions
Where Solomon Islands' land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Solomon Islands. By land, Capital Territory (Honiara) holds 0.10%. By people, it holds 16%. Isabel goes the other way, from 15% of the land to 4.4% of the people.
GDP for Solomon Islands is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guadalcanal | 19 | 30 | 34 |
| Malaita | 16 | 23 | 12 |
| Capital Territory (Honiara) | 0.10 | 16 | 34 |
| Western | 19 | 11 | 6.6 |
| Makira | 12 | 6.6 | 4.0 |
| Isabel | 15 | 4.4 | 2.7 |
| Choiseul | 11 | 3.4 | 1.9 |
| Central | 2.0 | 3.3 | 2.9 |
| Temotu | 3.4 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Rennell and Bellona | 2.3 | 0.60 | 0.40 |
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.