Each square is about 37,000 people. Lighter squares are metro areas.
| # | Metro | Population | Squares |
|---|
| Province | Population | Squares | In metros |
|---|
Metros are census metropolitan areas, so “Toronto” includes Mississauga and Brampton. Shapes are only roughly geographic.
The Big Bang sends each square to its spot on a real map, 15 km across: metros are split into their municipalities near their real locations, and squares outside metros go to the biggest towns in each riding.
Riding populations are 2021 census counts, so small ridings can be off by a few hundred. Nunavut’s are traced from Elections Nunavut’s map, with towns shared between seats (Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet, Arviat, Igloolik) split evenly.
Sources: Statistics Canada 2021 Census; provincial ridings from Open North’s Represent; locations from Wikidata and GeoNames; federal ridings from Open North’s Represent; outlines from Natural Earth.