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New Hampshire = Bangladesh
A fascinating map in which U.S. states are renamed for countries whose GDP they most closely emulate. Lots of fun.
[Via Bryan Caplan.]
UPDATE: If my remembery were all it ought to be, I'd have tipped Hit and Run's self-reflexive hat to Katherine Mangu-Ward, who blogged this very same thing back in June. Well, it was lots of fun then and still is now!
Franklin Harris|1.17.08 @ 4:34AM|#
Why yes, as a matter of fact, sometimes I do feel like I live in Iran.
paulie|1.17.08 @ 6:56AM|#
Franklin, you beat me to it.
Imam Roy Moore puts it on the table.
Mullah Troy King seals the deal.
|1.17.08 @ 7:29AM|#
I can live with being in the Netherlands. Heck, we have plenty of "Dutch" around already.
Sulla|1.17.08 @ 7:34AM|#
Definitely very interesting. I didn't realize DC was so high
-#36, $99 Billion, same as New Zealand?
Just for s&g, here are some approximate numbers the US
territories:
Puerto Rico would be comparable to Utah/Peru, with $75
billion.
Guam - $2.5 billion, comparable to Moldova
USVI - $1.2 billion, comparable to Sierra Leone
American Samoa - $0.5 billion, comparable to The Gambia
|1.17.08 @ 7:39AM|#
This link was posted by Katherine, back in June...
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/121064.html
Still an amazing (if slightly out-of-date) map, most of the other
maps from that blog are great, too (I subscribed to it after
reading the original).
Someone Who Doesn\'t Want to L|1.17.08 @ 7:46AM|#
Born and raised in Algeria!
Currently living in exile in Austria.
Lava|1.17.08 @ 8:18AM|#
It would be fascinating to revisit this map every few years to see whether they still match up.. probably 10 or 20 years ago china and india probably equalled one of the states
|1.17.08 @ 8:36AM|#
I agree it's a cool map, but I have a hard time believing the underlying data. As I commented at the time on Strange Maps, I had a hard time believing the 7th largest state (Michigan) was 20th in GDP, so I took the Census population estimates for 7/1/06 and computed my own per-capitas. If the absolute GDPs are correct, then Michigan has the lowest per-capita GDP in the country, at $20,800, compared with Mississippi at $34,400 and Arkansas at $44,100. I know times have been a little rough around here lately, but they're not that bad!
|1.17.08 @ 9:00AM|#
I've been calling MO Hickland ever since I got here. So I got no
problem with becoming Poland. Heck, I'd even support changing the
flag to red and white. Scattered hitter and yon in our rolling
hills, there is actually a sizable population of Polish descent.
And besides, kielbasa!
Mass = Belgium? Really? Who knew the Belgiumians (Belgiumese?) were
so industrious?
Episiarch|1.17.08 @ 9:24AM|#
Epi - that's Minnesota... :)
There's a difference?
(ducks from safe haven in Greece)
VM|1.17.08 @ 9:26AM|#
I think so - one the Chaezheads notice, the other hates Ohio...
or something like that. :)
Or... if you're in one, you have to make the top bunk's bunk up. If
you're in the other, top has to make bottom. John "OX" Candy
explains it better...
|1.17.08 @ 9:33AM|#
Some of them really fit. If you replace Mexicans with Muslims, California and France are a pretty good fit; decent film industry, good climate, world renoun wine industry, insufferable socialist politics.
|1.17.08 @ 9:53AM|#
Tonight on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before.
|1.17.08 @ 9:57AM|#
Warren:
I can't tell if you're serious or not, but: Belgians?
Also, I've got the same problem as RC Dean. Which state does the
U.K match with?
|1.17.08 @ 9:57AM|#
So Michigan is filled with Norwegians. This is
news?
It also seems quite fitting that Illinois is Mexico (well, at least
from the prospective of a Chicagoan originally from the Gage Park
neighborhood; a downstate farmer might disagree).
Anybody else feel their state is accurately represented by the
corresponding country? (I'm looking at you, Montana/Tunisia...)
VM|1.17.08 @ 10:01AM|#
ProGLib - yah. and the PPP chart showing that even DC is "richer" than the rest of the world.
robc|1.17.08 @ 10:10AM|#
Portugal. Hmmmm. Where is our (closed) Museum of Past
Glory.
Yes I just stole a joke from The Onion.
dhex|1.17.08 @ 10:22AM|#
born in russia, but living with the boys in brazil!
wooo!
wait, why i am so excited?
|1.17.08 @ 10:24AM|#
Tonight on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before.
VM|1.17.08 @ 10:26AM|#
ProGLib - yah. and the PPP chart showing that even DC is "richer" than the rest of the world.
Heathcliff|1.17.08 @ 10:49AM|#
With the drop in the dollar, these estimates that are based on
2004 or 2005 exchange rates and GDP are completely wrong.
2006 values are a little better than this map but still
wrong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states_and_countries_nominal_GDP
PPP is a much better estimate than GDP, but much harder to
measure.
|1.17.08 @ 10:55AM|#
Tonight on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before.
Michael Palin|1.17.08 @ 10:56AM|#
I cannot tell you how annoying that is,
Mr. Libertate.
I cannot tell you how annoying that is, Mr. Libertate.
Sam Grove|1.17.08 @ 11:45AM|#
Now if they could draw the map with the states sized to show population.
Javier|1.17.08 @ 12:46PM|#
I wonder where our dreaded enemy, the North Koreans would
rank.
I think my neighborhood development would be named North Korea
VM|1.17.08 @ 4:25PM|#
ProGLib - yah. and the PPP chart showing that even DC is "richer" than the rest of the world.
|1.17.08 @ 5:03PM|#
Tonight on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before.
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