Country · 3 regions
Where Virgin Islands, U.S.'s land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Virgin Islands, U.S.. By land, Saint Thomas holds 23%. By people, it holds 48%. Saint John goes the other way, from 17% of the land to 4.1% of the people. By GDP, Saint Croix punches above its population: 48% of the people, 61% of the economy.
GDP for Virgin Islands, U.S. is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Croix | 60 | 48 | 61 |
| Saint Thomas | 23 | 48 | 37 |
| Saint John | 17 | 4.1 | 2.2 |
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.