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Florida=Korea & Texas=Canada
Say you renamed states for the countries which share the same GDP. This is what you'd get (click the map for a larger image):
A topsy turvy world where Alaska is Belarus and Algeria is West Virginia. California becomes France, but that's not really so crazy.
The Strange Maps blog writes:
The creator of this map had the interesting idea to break down that US GDP into the GDPs of individual states, and compare those to other countries GDPs. What follows is this slightly misleading map, because the economies of the US states and of the countries they are compared with are not weighted for their respective populations.
Pakistan, for example, has a GDP that’s slightly higher than Israel’s but Pakistan has a population of about 170 million, while Israel is only 7 million people strong. The US states that those economies are compared with (Arkansas and Oregon, respectively) are much closer to each other in population: 2,7 million and 3,4 million.
The original source is The York Group.
|6.26.07 @ 11:19AM|#
Its kind of appropriate Minnesota is matched up with
Norway.
I'd like to see the same thing done, except with GDP Per
Capita.
|6.26.07 @ 11:27AM|#
Better not let the Bush administration see this map or they'll nuke Alabama by mistake.
|6.26.07 @ 11:28AM|#
The creator of this map had the interesting idea to
break down that US GDP into the GDPs of individual states, and
compare those to other countries GDPs no
life.
|6.26.07 @ 11:31AM|#
Holy crap, New Jersey has the same GDP as Russia?
I have a really, really hard time believing that.
|6.26.07 @ 11:36AM|#
Given the new ethanol economy, it's fitting that Iowa and Illinois are mapped to OPEC members.
|6.26.07 @ 11:37AM|#
Holy crap, New Jersey has the same GDP as Russia?
I have a really, really hard time believing that.
Why not? Organized crime syndicates run both.
|6.26.07 @ 11:37AM|#
Better not let the Bush administration see this map or
they'll nuke Alabama the whole Southeast by
mistake.
Idiots Per Map = 1|6.26.07 @ 11:52AM|#
the economies of the US states and of the countries they are
compared with are not weighted for their respective
populations
That's the point, mapwad. Not every piece of
illustrated data is designed to make fun of Mississippians.
robc|6.26.07 @ 12:10PM|#
When this was on fark a week or two ago, some people asked for
per capita version instead. The problem is the US range of per
capita GSPs is pretty small, there arent enough countries in the
range to map to the states. I thought this version was more
interesting anyway.
So is HnR pulling stories out of the farkives now?
|6.26.07 @ 12:18PM|#
Idiots Per Map = 1 | June 26, 2007, 11:52am | #
the economies of the US states and of the countries they are
compared with are not weighted for their respective
populations
That's the point, mapwad. Not every piece of illustrated data is
designed to make fun of Mississippians.
Damn. Missed the chance to make fun of
Mississississississsissippians.
|6.26.07 @ 12:36PM|#
What about the Canadian provinces? This is no fun without
Canada.
You've got to let your little brother play too. I mean it.
|6.26.07 @ 12:39PM|#
What about the Canadian provinces? This is no fun without
Canada.
Well, considering Texas has a GDP as big as Canada's even though it
has twelve million fewer people suggests the comparison wouldn't be
flattering to Canada.
|6.26.07 @ 12:48PM|#
Twelve million fewer people? Oh, I see. You're not counting the fifty million undocumented workers.
|6.26.07 @ 12:49PM|#
Oh come on Liberate! You know illegals aren't people, they're invaders, remember?
|6.26.07 @ 12:52PM|#
Not every piece of illustrated data is designed to make fun
of Mississippians.
If they did it per capita income, it is the country that is
compared to Mississippi that will be made fun of. How does Sweden
strike you?
|6.26.07 @ 12:54PM|#
If they did it per capita income, it is the country that is
compared to Mississippi that will be made fun of. How does Sweden
strike you?
Wow, thats just funny as hell.
Fred|6.26.07 @ 1:00PM|#
As a Buckeye, I could only hear the voice of Gene Hackman in a
certain blockbuster when I saw Ohio = Australia!
Unfortunately, our governor and the idiots running the state are
some lame 1950s silver-age villians as opposed to Lex Luthor
...
BobDobalina|6.26.07 @ 1:02PM|#
Since Hawaii equals Nigeria and Illinois equals South Africa, I'm afraid things don't bode well for Barrack Obama ...
|6.26.07 @ 1:04PM|#
It does seem like a good idea to separate Israel from the other Middle East states. So long as we can keep the theocrats from seizing control in Seattle, peace may yet reign in the holy city of Salem.
|6.26.07 @ 2:28PM|#
This is going to be a whole new wrinkle for visits to "4 corners" (Peru, Finland, Thailand, Hungary)
|6.26.07 @ 3:33PM|#
The problem with the chart is that it either uses old data, or
just always decides to round up, because the numbers don't seem to
match other sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states_and_countries_nominal_GDP
|6.26.07 @ 3:42PM|#
Pro Libertate | June 26, 2007, 12:34pm | #
Aresen,
Now, now. British Columbia has money and stuff.
If they counted our grow-ops, we'ed probably smoke Washington
State, I grass.
Anonymo the Anonymous|6.26.07 @ 4:00PM|#
How fitting that Alabama = Iran on that map...
When the bombing commences, could y'all please start with Mullah
Nick Saban's house? Thanks.
Kevin Joseph Spring|6.26.07 @ 4:04PM|#
Why doesn't someone make a per capita income map to get a more accurate view?
|6.26.07 @ 4:19PM|#
If they counted our grow-ops, we'ed probably smoke
Washington State, I grass.
Would that count the grow-ops in Washington State, too? Lots and
lots of public forest land in the PacNW...
|6.26.07 @ 6:51PM|#
Lunchstealer,
"NM - Probably more like Pisole = Goulash."
I think you mean Posole,
http://www.southernnewmexico.com/Articles/Food/Posolestew-aNewMexicoholi.html
And I agree it is a better fit.
|6.26.07 @ 11:23PM|#
I'm going to British Columbia in two weeks, and I'm a Texan. Does this mean I don't have to take my passport?
lunchstealer|6.27.07 @ 12:35AM|#
Yeah, it was years before I saw posole written, so the guessed
spelling still sticks in my brain.
posole == win
lunchstealer|6.27.07 @ 12:36AM|#
As does carne adovada with green chile sauce (also not remembering that spelling well).
|6.27.07 @ 12:49AM|#
Missouri is now The "Show Me ... No, Wait, Show Me Again, I Didn't Get It ... Huh? ... Show Me Again ... I Don't Understand ... Just Show Me One More Time ... Okay, I Get It Now ... Wait, I Forgot Already" State.
|6.27.07 @ 11:30AM|#
Lunchstealer,
"As does carne adovada with green chile sauce (also not remembering
that spelling well)."
I admire you taste.
Now carne adovada is made with red chile (pork marinated in red
chile and other spices = carne adovada)...so I wonder if you mean
Chile con Carne.
But, of course, carne adovada served with green chile over it is
indeed one of the highest achievements of man.
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