Country · 14 regions
Where El Salvador's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of El Salvador. By land, San Salvador holds 4.1%. By people, it holds 25%. Chalatenango goes the other way, from 9.4% of the land to 3.2% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Salvador | 4.1 | 25 | 31 |
| La Libertad | 8.5 | 13 | 15 |
| Santa Ana | 10 | 9.6 | 9.6 |
| Sonsonate | 5.9 | 8.2 | 7.1 |
| San Miguel | 10 | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Ahuachapán | 6.0 | 6.1 | 4.6 |
| Usulután | 10 | 6.0 | 5.3 |
| La Paz | 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.2 |
| Cuscatlán | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| Chalatenango | 9.4 | 3.2 | 2.7 |
| La Unión | 9.3 | 3.2 | 2.4 |
| Morazán | 6.4 | 2.9 | 2.2 |
| San Vicente | 5.6 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
| Cabañas | 5.1 | 2.6 | 2.0 |
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.