Country · 11 regions
Where Samoa's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Samoa. By land, Tuamasaga holds 16%. By people, it holds 44%. Palauli goes the other way, from 19% of the land to 4.8% of the people.
GDP for Samoa is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuamasaga | 16 | 44 | 57 |
| A'ana | 10 | 16 | 12 |
| Gaga'emauga | 8.5 | 12 | 14 |
| Atua | 9.8 | 7.9 | 5.6 |
| Fa'asaleleaga | 8.3 | 7.4 | 5.2 |
| Palauli | 19 | 4.8 | 2.5 |
| Satupa'itea | 5.4 | 2.1 | 1.0 |
| Aiga-i-le-Tai | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
| Vaisigano | 4.4 | 1.9 | 0.80 |
| Gaga'ifomauga | 15 | 0.90 | 0.50 |
| Va'a-o-Fonoti | 1.8 | 0.80 | 0.60 |
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.