renamed US states GDP map
21 June 2007

a geographical map of the US on which the individual states are renamed to foreign countries, according to their comparative yearly Gross Domestic Product (GDP). the resulting map is slightly misleading, because the economies are not weighted for their respective populations. however, the map shows the size of US states’ economies relative to each other (California is the biggest, Wyoming the smallest), & it links those sizes with foreign economies (which are therefore also ranked: Mexico’s & Russia’s economies are about equal size, Ireland’s is twice as big as New Zealand’s).
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