US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs

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http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/200...-similar-gdps/

We are rich rich rich!

lol at Canada=TX and Russia=NJ

[Shadarach]

Someone has been on Del.icio.us

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No, I read Marginal Revolution and Kottke, both who linked it. I prefer Digg over Delicious, but I still only look at Digg every 3 days or so when I have nothing else to do. When Delicious first came out it only worked for IE, which I don't use. I don't think those sites are that useful.

[Snrrub]

Several of the GDP numbers used to make that map are incorrect. A quick example is the GDP for New York state.

In 2006, NY's GDP was 3rd highest of all the states in the US, equal to $1,021,944 (millions US), behind Texas and California. However, the map places New York as having the 7th largest GDP of US states, behind Florida, Ohio, New Jersey and Illinois.

Further, the map equates the GDP of New York with that of Brazil, and claims that Brazil's GDP is $621 billion, which is also incorrect. The CIA world factbook lists Brazil's GDP as $943.6 billion US ($1.616 trillion PPP).