Map of USA with states replaced with countries

GDP of countries when compared with US states

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/
from JoeUser Forums

Here's a map of the United States but with state names changed to countries that have a similar GDP (gross domestic product) to that state.  Kind of gives a whole new perspective on things.

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Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

Damn, we only got an Austria.  I was hoping for at least an Italy.

Very interesting.

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well that's interesting.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I guess that makes it pretty clear why we're the world's superpower.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Damn, we only got an Austria. I was hoping for at least an Italy.


i must admit, i would like having amsterdam right next door (pa). lol but one other note...this post is making my JU homepage all funky...too wide.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
My father, who lives in Ukraine, had this to say about the map comparing that country's GDP to Idaho:

I've always wondered about economic reporting, and now I'm sure of it. Idahoans may have more SUV's and larger houses, but there's no way I'd believe that in actual physical property each family there has as much as 32 families here! When economists do their calculations they don't take into account that a box of Cheerios at four bucks isn't REALLY worth as much as twenty pounds of oats. Proof of it being that an American family of three, or four, lives on a nice big house on a half acre of land and has two vehicles, neither of which is just basic transportation. But they are not wealthier than 30 Ukrainian families that own their own flats and get to work on public transportation. Mama's $17,000 gall-bladder operation was a lot nicer in Reedsburg than my $200 gall-bladder operation will be here, should I need one. (By way of comparison, her colonoscopy was painless and I didn't want to let the doctor finish mine, it was so distressing.) But was hers worth 85 times as much as mine would be? No, it's just that she's gotta pay three or four invisible lawyers and bureaucrats (may the Lord smite them all with leprosy and inspire their children to do honest work) and I'm not.

There is fame and fortune for the economist who does an honest job of comparing the actual wealth of countries. Although Idaho is half the size of ukraine and it's reasonable to think the economies would be equal, with one thirtieth the people it's not reasonable at all.


I just posted that because it's a little less dry and polemical way of saying that economists agree that when you compare GDP between countries, you should measure it by purchasing power and not exchange rates. Wikipedia has a list doing it by purchasing power. Although the page is a little messed up, it appears that Ukraine belongs up with Massachusetts and Idaho down by Vietnam and Slovakia.

Doing the comparisons by exchange rates tends to make the U.S. look better. I bet this map wouldn't spread across the Internet half as fast if it said Michigan was equal to the Philippines and California was smaller than Brazil.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
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lol!
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
I've always wanted to go to Australia.....
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'd feel better if I wasn't sandwiched between Hungary and the Phillipines!
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

For daring to compare my state to France I am formally putting a contract on yer head brad, to the tune of DA DA daaaaaa.

30 cents,

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Finland, COOL!
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
It speaks volumes about Saudi Arabia. The fact that they have such a piddly GDP, and that the leaders can be so fabulously wealthy shows how much actually gets to the people there. Would be interesting if there was one for yearly earnings, but then we'd have to have several countries per state for a bunch, I bet.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Korea Republic? Hmmm, I think I'm going back to my island of Puerto Rico.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
HEY BRAD!!!!!

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Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
Don't cry for me Argentina!
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
They have the worst potholes in Bueno Aires.
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Also give a new meaning to "we've got the whole world in our hands" as well.
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
worse than pittsburgh?

Pittsburgh? Don't you mean Rotterdam?
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
Pittsburgh? Don't you mean Rotterdam?


that one took me a minute,,,LOL  

how are things back in the burgh? i sure could go for a red-eye and some permanti's. but i'd settle for the "O."
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
I always thought that my state (MI), should take over Ohio, so now i have to reconcile Argentina taking over Australia. Hey, they did give England a run for it's money.... We could at least get Toledo out of the deal.
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
We could at least get Toledo out of the deal

Being a big Wolverine fan I wouldn't have mind if Toledo was in Michigan. At least people would no longer say, "You like them? But you're from Ohio."

Wasn't Toledo part of Michigan many years ago?
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top

We could at least get Toledo out of the deal

I am pretty sure Ohio would not mind giving them up!