Land vs People

Country · 4 regions

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

Every block on the map is 0.1% of Uganda. By land, Eastern holds 16%. By people, it holds 26%. Northern goes the other way, from 35% of the land to 21% of the people. By GDP, Central punches above its population: 27% of the people, 38% of the economy.

GDP for Uganda is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.

Share of Uganda by region, in percent
RegionLandPeopleGDP
Central262738
Western232619
Eastern162625
Northern352119

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.