Country · 10 regions
Where Zambia's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Zambia. By land, Lusaka holds 2.8%. By people, it holds 20%. North-Western goes the other way, from 16% of the land to 4.4% of the people.
GDP for Zambia is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lusaka | 2.8 | 20 | 32 |
| Copperbelt | 4.0 | 14 | 17 |
| Southern | 11 | 12 | 8.2 |
| Eastern | 6.9 | 11 | 7.8 |
| Central | 13 | 10 | 8.1 |
| Luapula | 6.5 | 9.2 | 8.3 |
| Northern | 9.5 | 7.7 | 6.0 |
| Western | 17 | 5.7 | 4.4 |
| Muchinga | 13 | 5.6 | 5.2 |
| North-Western | 16 | 4.4 | 3.4 |
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.