Country · 25 regions
Where Ukraine's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Ukraine. By land, Kiev City holds 0.30%. By people, it holds 7.8%. Chernihiv goes the other way, from 5.6% of the land to 2.3% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donets'k | 4.5 | 9.9 | 5.5 |
| Kiev City | 0.30 | 7.8 | 24 |
| Dnipropetrovs'k | 5.6 | 7.5 | 10 |
| Kharkiv | 5.5 | 6.5 | 6.9 |
| L'viv | 3.9 | 6.0 | 4.9 |
| Odessa | 5.9 | 5.7 | 5.1 |
| Luhans'k | 4.8 | 4.9 | 0.90 |
| Zaporizhzhya | 4.8 | 4.1 | 4.1 |
| Vinnytsya | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
| Kiev | 4.7 | 3.5 | 4.7 |
| Ivano-Frankivs'k | 2.6 | 3.4 | 2.1 |
| Poltava | 4.9 | 3.3 | 4.7 |
| Transcarpathia | 2.1 | 3.1 | 1.7 |
| Khmel'nyts'kyy | 3.4 | 3.0 | 2.0 |
| Rivne | 3.7 | 2.9 | 1.5 |
| Zhytomyr | 5.5 | 2.9 | 2.2 |
| Cherkasy | 4.0 | 2.8 | 2.6 |
| Mykolayiv | 4.2 | 2.6 | 2.0 |
| Sumy | 3.9 | 2.5 | 1.8 |
| Ternopil' | 2.6 | 2.5 | 1.4 |
| Volyn | 3.5 | 2.5 | 1.8 |
| Chernihiv | 5.6 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
| Kherson | 4.7 | 2.3 | 1.5 |
| Chernivtsi | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.0 |
| Kirovohrad | 4.0 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
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.