Country · 21 regions
Where Taiwan's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Taiwan. By land, New Taipei City holds 5.1%. By people, it holds 20%. Hualien goes the other way, from 12% of the land to 1.0% of the people.
GDP for Taiwan is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Taipei City | 5.1 | 20 | 31 |
| Taichung City | 5.9 | 13 | 7.9 |
| Taoyuan | 3.4 | 12 | 7.8 |
| Kaohsiung City | 8.5 | 12 | 7.6 |
| Taipei City | 0.90 | 10 | 13 |
| Tainan City | 6.0 | 7.0 | 11 |
| Changhua | 3.6 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| Pingtung | 7.8 | 2.7 | 1.5 |
| Hsinchu | 4.0 | 2.3 | 1.5 |
| Hsinchu City | 0.40 | 2.1 | 2.8 |
| Miaoli | 5.1 | 2.1 | 1.5 |
| Yunlin | 3.3 | 1.9 | 1.2 |
| Keelung City | 0.50 | 1.8 | 2.0 |
| Chiayi | 5.5 | 1.7 | 1.1 |
| Nantou | 12 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| Chiayi City | 0.30 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
| Yilan | 5.5 | 1.4 | 1.1 |
| Hualien | 12 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Taitung | 9.4 | 0.70 | 0.60 |
| Kinmen | 0.50 | 0.20 | 0.20 |
| Penghu | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.10 |
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.