Land vs People

Country · 12 regions

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

Every block on the map is 0.1% of Slovenia. By land, Osrednjeslovenska holds 13%. By people, it holds 29%. Jugovzhodna Slovenija goes the other way, from 14% of the land to 7.0% of the people. By GDP, Obalno-kraška punches above its population: 5.3% of the people, 10% of the economy.

Share of Slovenia by region, in percent
RegionLandPeopleGDP
Osrednjeslovenska132931
Podravska101411
Savinjska12129.1
Gorenjska109.69.2
Jugovzhodna Slovenija147.08.0
Goriška126.46.4
Pomurska7.35.75.0
Obalno-kraška5.05.310
Koroška4.73.23.0
Spodnjeposavska4.13.02.9
Notranjsko-kraška7.12.52.6
Zasavska1.41.91.3

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.