Country · 51 regions
Where United States' land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of United States. By land, California holds 4.2%. By people, it holds 12%. Alaska goes the other way, from 17% of the land to 0.20% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 4.2 | 12 | 15 |
| Texas | 7.2 | 8.8 | 9.1 |
| Florida | 1.6 | 6.5 | 5.6 |
| New York | 1.4 | 6.1 | 7.1 |
| Illinois | 1.4 | 3.9 | 4.0 |
| Pennsylvania | 1.3 | 3.9 | 3.7 |
| Ohio | 1.1 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
| Georgia | 1.7 | 3.2 | 3.0 |
| North Carolina | 1.4 | 3.2 | 2.9 |
| Michigan | 2.4 | 3.0 | 2.3 |
| New Jersey | 0.30 | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| Virginia | 0.99 | 2.6 | 2.6 |
| Washington | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.8 |
| Arizona | 3.1 | 2.2 | 2.0 |
| Indiana | 1.4 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| Massachusetts | 0.20 | 2.1 | 2.6 |
| Tennessee | 1.3 | 2.1 | 1.9 |
| Maryland | 0.49 | 1.9 | 2.0 |
| Missouri | 1.4 | 1.9 | 1.6 |
| Wisconsin | 1.9 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Colorado | 2.8 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Minnesota | 2.1 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| Alabama | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| South Carolina | 0.59 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
| Kentucky | 0.89 | 1.4 | 1.1 |
| Louisiana | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| Oregon | 2.6 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| Oklahoma | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.90 |
| Connecticut | 0.10 | 1.1 | 1.2 |
| Iowa | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.90 |
| Utah | 2.4 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Arkansas | 1.4 | 0.90 | 0.70 |
| Kansas | 2.4 | 0.90 | 0.80 |
| Mississippi | 1.6 | 0.90 | 0.60 |
| Nevada | 3.0 | 0.90 | 0.90 |
| Idaho | 2.3 | 0.60 | 0.40 |
| Nebraska | 2.1 | 0.60 | 0.70 |
| New Mexico | 3.1 | 0.60 | 0.80 |
| West Virginia | 0.69 | 0.50 | 0.40 |
| Hawaii | 0.69 | 0.40 | 0.40 |
| Maine | 0.89 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
| New Hampshire | 0.20 | 0.40 | 0.40 |
| Delaware | 0.00 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| Montana | 3.8 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| Rhode Island | 0.00 | 0.30 | 0.40 |
| South Dakota | 2.2 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| Alaska | 17 | 0.20 | 0.30 |
| District of Columbia | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.50 |
| North Dakota | 1.9 | 0.20 | 0.30 |
| Vermont | 0.30 | 0.20 | 0.10 |
| Wyoming | 2.7 | 0.20 | 0.20 |
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.