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US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs

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strange maps has this really interesting mashup of a U.S. map:

The creator of this map has had the interesting idea to break down that gigantic US GDP into the GDPs of individual states, and compare those to other countries’ GDP. What follows, is this slightly misleading map – misleading, because the economies both of the US states and of the countries they are compared with are not weighted for their respective populations.

To see their entire post, click here.

Posted on 12 June '07 by Alexander Wrege, under GDP, US, United States, mashup.

7 Comments to “US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs”

#1 Posted by Carlos (13.06.07 at 10:47 )

where the **** is Spain?!?!?! Or are we just a province of Morroco or Brazil?

#2 Posted by Azizamo (13.06.07 at 22:58 )

I will read this article one more time ……..
This is the a abbreviation of GNP:-
Gross National Product (abbr.: GNP)
noun
the total value of goods produced and services provided by a country during one year, equal to the gross domestic product plus the net income from foreign investments.

Thanks alot.

#3 Posted by Azizamo (13.06.07 at 22:58 )

I will read this article one more time ……..
This is the a abbreviation of GNP:-
Gross National Product (n)o
the total value of goods produced and services provided by a country during one year, equal to the gross domestic product plus the net income from foreign investments.

Thanks a lot.

#4 Posted by carlos (14.06.07 at 05:26 )

I know what that means and Spain is the 10th country, so why is not there?
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/gnp.html
just curious about it

#5 Posted by Alexander Wrege (14.06.07 at 09:09 )

Hey Carlos,

I think that Spain was left out because it’s GPD didn’t match a U.S. state as well as Canada’s. Germany was left out as well, because it’s GDP was too high for a fit, I think the same is true for Spain (Source -Wikipedia):

GDP

#6 Posted by carlos (14.06.07 at 09:30 )

ok that make sense
so this is just reltive to those countries that the author wants to compare
That’s fine, I thought it was a escale of all countries and things like not having Spain there and also germany, which I couldnt tell because I was looking for Spain as natural, didnt make sense.
Now understand and nothing to say about it
interesting map