Country · 21 regions
Where Sweden's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Sweden. By land, Stockholm holds 1.4%. By people, it holds 23%. Norrbotten goes the other way, from 24% of the land to 2.4% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stockholm | 1.4 | 23 | 38 |
| Västra Götaland | 6.7 | 17 | 17 |
| Skåne | 2.8 | 13 | 12 |
| Östergötland | 2.6 | 4.5 | 3.7 |
| Uppsala | 1.5 | 3.7 | 2.9 |
| Jönköping | 2.5 | 3.5 | 2.6 |
| Halland | 1.3 | 3.3 | 2.3 |
| Orebro | 2.2 | 2.9 | 2.3 |
| Södermanland | 1.6 | 2.9 | 1.7 |
| Dalarna | 6.8 | 2.8 | 2.0 |
| Gävleborg | 4.2 | 2.8 | 1.9 |
| Värmland | 5.1 | 2.7 | 1.8 |
| Västmanland | 1.3 | 2.7 | 1.9 |
| Västerbotten | 13 | 2.6 | 2.0 |
| Kalmar | 2.7 | 2.4 | 1.4 |
| Norrbotten | 24 | 2.4 | 1.9 |
| Västernorrland | 5.3 | 2.3 | 1.6 |
| Kronoberg | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.6 |
| Blekinge | 0.90 | 1.6 | 0.90 |
| Jämtland | 12 | 1.3 | 0.90 |
| Gotland | 0.80 | 0.60 | 0.30 |
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.