Country · 19 regions
Where Uruguay's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Uruguay. By land, Montevideo holds 0.30%. By people, it holds 37%. Tacuarembó goes the other way, from 8.4% of the land to 2.8% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montevideo | 0.30 | 37 | 44 |
| Canelones | 2.5 | 17 | 13 |
| Maldonado | 2.8 | 6.8 | 7.8 |
| Salto | 8.3 | 3.9 | 2.8 |
| San José | 2.7 | 3.7 | 3.5 |
| Colonia | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.6 |
| Paysandú | 7.9 | 3.5 | 3.1 |
| Rivera | 5.3 | 3.4 | 3.4 |
| Soriano | 5.1 | 2.8 | 2.7 |
| Tacuarembó | 8.4 | 2.8 | 2.1 |
| Cerro Largo | 7.9 | 2.5 | 1.7 |
| Florida | 5.7 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Rocha | 6.3 | 2.0 | 1.4 |
| Artigas | 6.8 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
| Durazno | 7.2 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| Río Negro | 5.3 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
| Lavalleja | 5.5 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| Treinta y Tres | 5.4 | 1.4 | 1.0 |
| Flores | 2.9 | 0.80 | 0.80 |
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.