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!

Comments

[Franklin Harris]

Why yes, as a matter of fact, sometimes I do feel like I live in Iran.

[paulie]

Franklin, you beat me to it.

Imam Roy Moore puts it on the table.

Mullah Troy King seals the deal.

[SIV]

We in Switzerland propose an embargo on water to Iran.

[diakron]

I can live with being in the Netherlands. Heck, we have plenty of "Dutch" around already.

[Sulla]

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

[leviramsey]

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Still an amazing (if slightly out-of-date) map, most of the other maps from that blog are great, too (I subscribed to it after reading the original).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]

Born and raised in Algeria!

Currently living in exile in Austria.

[Lava]

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

[Ironchef]

SC = Singapore. Ha! My home state matches up against a city. Ewww.

[Don K]

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!

[John-David]

Living in Australia would be way cooler than being stuck in Ohio.

[Episiarch]

So Michigan is filled with Norwegians. This is news?

[Warren]

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?

[VM]

Epi - that's Minnesota... 🙂

[Marshall]

I can live with being in Finland.

[Episiarch]

Epi - that's Minnesota... 🙂

There's a difference?

(ducks from safe haven in Greece)

[VM]

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...

[John]

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.

[R C Dean]

Help me out here; our company software blocks the site:

Texas?

[John]

Texas = Canada. RC

[Pro Libertate]

Tonight on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of d?j? vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before.

[R C Dean]

Texas = Canada.

Ouch.

[Cerro]

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?

[ClubMedSux]

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]

ProGLib - yah. and the PPP chart showing that even DC is "richer" than the rest of the world.

[robc]

Portugal. Hmmmm. Where is our (closed) Museum of Past Glory.

Yes I just stole a joke from The Onion.

[dhex]

born in russia, but living with the boys in brazil!

wooo!

wait, why i am so excited?

[Pro Libertate]

Tonight on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of d?j? vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before.

[VM]

ProGLib - yah. and the PPP chart showing that even DC is "richer" than the rest of the world.

[Mo]

For rankings of states by per capita GDP. DC is rich baby.

[Heathcliff]

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.

[Pro Libertate]

Tonight on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of d?j? vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before.

[Michael Palin]

I cannot tell you how annoying that is,
Mr. Libertate.

I cannot tell you how annoying that is, Mr. Libertate.

[agares]

I wonder where our dreaded enemy, the North Koreans would rank.

[Pro Libertate]

Hmmm, one of the Aleutian Islands. Not a big one, either.

[Sam Grove]

Now if they could draw the map with the states sized to show population.

[Javier]

I wonder where our dreaded enemy, the North Koreans would rank.

I think my neighborhood development would be named North Korea

[de stijl]

I love strangemaps.com but this also looks pretty cool.

World Mapper

[VM]

ProGLib - yah. and the PPP chart showing that even DC is "richer" than the rest of the world.

[Pro Libertate]

Tonight on "It's the Mind", we examine the phenomenon of d?j? vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we've lived through something before.

[Jim Walsh]

The weather sure is lousy here in "Equador"...