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.

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


  1. 1 Carlos

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

  2. 2 Azizamo

    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. 3 Azizamo

    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. 4 carlos

    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. 5 Alexander Wrege

    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. 6 carlos

    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

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