Land vs People

Country · 24 regions

Where Serbia's land ends up, by people and by money

Every block on the map is 0.1% of Serbia. By land, Grad Beograd holds 4.3%. By people, it holds 26%. Zlatiborski goes the other way, from 8.0% of the land to 3.5% of the people.

Share of Serbia by region, in percent
RegionLandPeopleGDP
Grad Beograd4.32641
Južno-Backi5.39.311
Pomoravski7.05.84.2
Nišavski3.45.64.4
Raški4.54.83.8
Šumadijski2.94.13.2
Sremski4.53.93.0
Južno-Banatski5.23.83.9
Macvanski4.23.62.3
Zlatiborski8.03.51.6
Moravicki4.02.92.0
Podunavski1.92.72.2
Jablanicki3.52.62.5
Severno-Backi2.32.52.6
Branicevski5.42.41.3
Srednje-Banatski4.12.32.3
Borski4.62.22.0
Zapadno-Backi3.02.21.3
Kolubarski3.32.11.4
Pcinjski4.52.11.3
Severno-Banatski2.91.71.5
Zajecarski4.91.30.90
Pirotski3.61.10.50
Toplicki2.81.10.50

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.