Country · 10 regions
Where Suriname's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Suriname. By land, Wanica holds 0.40%. By people, it holds 35%. Sipaliwini goes the other way, from 77% of the land to 6.1% of the people.
GDP for Suriname is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wanica | 0.40 | 35 | 43 |
| Paramaribo | 0.10 | 34 | 39 |
| Para | 3.9 | 6.3 | 3.3 |
| Sipaliwini | 77 | 6.1 | 2.8 |
| Commewijne | 1.4 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| Nickerie | 3.5 | 3.8 | 1.4 |
| Saramacca | 2.7 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
| Coronie | 2.3 | 2.5 | 1.3 |
| Marowijne | 3.2 | 2.3 | 1.2 |
| Brokopondo | 5.3 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
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.