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- HarryBauzonia, on 10/11/2007, -9/+68So screw those of us who have never seen it, huh?
- GRTWHT, on 10/11/2007, -9/+65Looks like it's on it way there again, doesn't it?
Who cares if it's old or not, folks digg what they want to, whether you like it or not. - candylandviper, on 10/11/2007, -10/+65Both are equally depressing places
- arsemaster, on 10/11/2007, -5/+59California = France
Wine? Check
Smoking Ban? Check
Race riots? Check
Movies? Check
All France needs to do is elect a Cyborg president and they'll be virtually the same place. - catalysis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+54According to wikipedia, the GDP of New Jersey is not even close to that of Russia ($453B and $979B). Also, Mexico has a much higher GDP than Illinois. Those are the only two I checked, but since they are both wrong I would assume most of the other ones are as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_(nominal) - tdrizzle, on 10/11/2007, -2/+48Really? New Jersey has the same GDP as Russia? I feel sorry for Russia.
- ravan46, on 10/11/2007, -0/+32Orignial blog of this. With MUCH better info
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/ - Ricky8765, on 10/11/2007, -4/+31@candylandviper
But Russia has WAY hotter chicks ;) - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -13/+40***** you, you're old as hell
- Sparkster185, on 10/11/2007, -2/+25So some guy find a map in another guys blog and copies it to his own blog. How original.
- HMTKSteve, on 10/11/2007, -3/+23Buried as blog spam. The first line in the article says he got the image from ANOTHER BLOG!!!!
Link to the source people. - 10001110101, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20Texas is Canada?!?! Say it ain't so!!
- thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22Let me give you a little hint about this, DC people.
YOU'RE NOT IN A STATE. DC is just a construct. Don't like it? Move a bit into Maryland or Virginia. - Zbrah, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20This map would piss a lot of rednecks off if it wasn't explained.
- danielrh9, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19Some of this are just eerily appropriate. Such as California as France and Alabama as Iran.
- qualish, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15@ zabaf
Umm... California? 1.727 trillion, according to your same Wikipedia source. Don't be a player hater. And Texas GDP at 1.065 million? Did you even read that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_States_by_GDP_%28nominal%29 - catalysis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Do you really need me to hold your hand and give you the sources at the bottom of the page? Sorry dude, falsifying information on wikipedia doesn't make this map any more accurate.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2007/01/data/weorept.aspx?sy=2006&ey=2006&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=%2C&br=1&c=512%2C941%2C914%2C446%2C612%2C666%2C614%2C668%2C311%2C672%2C213%2C946%2C911%2C137%2C193%2C962%2C122%2C674%2C912%2C676%2C313%2C548%2C419%2C556%2C513%2C678%2C316%2C181%2C913%2C682%2C124%2C684%2C339%2C273%2C638%2C921%2C514%2C948%2C218%2C686%2C963%2C688%2C616%2C518%2C223%2C728%2C516%2C558%2C918%2C138%2C748%2C196%2C618%2C278%2C522%2C692%2C622%2C694%2C156%2C142%2C624%2C449%2C626%2C564%2C628%2C283%2C228%2C853%2C924%2C288%2C233%2C293%2C632%2C566%2C636%2C964%2C634%2C182%2C238%2C453%2C662%2C968%2C960%2C922%2C423%2C714%2C935%2C862%2C128%2C716%2C611%2C456%2C321%2C722%2C243%2C965%2C248%2C718%2C469%2C724%2C253%2C576%2C642%2C936%2C643%2C961%2C939%2C813%2C644%2C199%2C819%2C184%2C172%2C524%2C132%2C361%2C646%2C362%2C648%2C364%2C915%2C732%2C134%2C366%2C652%2C734%2C174%2C144%2C328%2C146%2C258%2C463%2C656%2C528%2C654%2C923%2C336%2C738%2C263%2C578%2C268%2C537%2C532%2C742%2C944%2C866%2C176%2C369%2C534%2C744%2C536%2C186%2C429%2C925%2C178%2C746%2C436%2C926%2C136%2C466%2C343%2C112%2C158%2C111%2C439%2C298%2C916%2C927%2C664%2C846%2C826%2C299%2C542%2C582%2C443%2C474%2C917%2C754%2C544%2C698&s=NGDPD&grp=0&a=&pr1.x=31&pr1.y=13
http://www.bea.gov/regional/ - BabyWookie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13The problem is that this map is like 5 years old and Russia has been having one of the fastest growing GDPs in the world. After the collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s, Russia had the GDP of a Third World country. Currently, it's 8-9th biggest in the world and is projected to become the biggest in Europe fairly soon.
Also, to the guy who said that Russia was depressing: have you ever been there? It's a very large country, you know and it's quickly changing. - Godlike, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13How the hell did they manage to ban smoking in FRANCE?!?!?!?!??!?!
- mikes1, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15The swipe at DC government is disingenuous. DC has never had representation, and people live there by choice. If they want representation, they should move to a state.
- GGzah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11umm, yeah, Canada's on there. We are in the G8.
"Anyone can miss Canada all tucked away down there... "
- Homer - Brick86, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Ahhhhhhhh Motherland
- tehpwnrate, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Some Americans believe in a geocentric theory because our GDP is so much bigger than anyone else's?
- HarryBauzonia, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13The GDP of little bitty New Jersey = Russia?
Damn.
West Virginia should be ashamed though. ....= Algeria. That's what they get for seceding from Virginia. - tobrown779, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Since when is Hong Kong a country?
- thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Oh, shut up you ***** prick.
- TheCricket, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11That would be 1,065,891 million, AKA 1.065 trillion, for Texas. You think the entire state of Texas produces a mere 1 million dollars a year?
- doktorrocket, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9FTA, in reference to DC: "Now imagine if no one in New Zealand were allowed to vote for their own government..."
DC residents elect their Mayor (occasionally with disastrous consequences) and other local administrators, and have 3 electoral college votes for US presidential elections. They lack representation in the federal congress, but it's not like they never get to vote. - cphelps, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Did you read what the map means? Or are you just doing a stare and compare of state VS country?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9and From the Description: "The District of Columbia has the same GDP as New Zealand. Now imagine if no one in New Zealand were allowed to vote for their own government, and they were governed by the Senate in Australia as a colony."
I live in DC now and let me tell you, any city that consistently votes a crackhead/drunk driver/waste of skin like Marrion Barry into office as mayor and onto the city council...the people up here are obviously too dumb to vote on anything, much less be given statehood. - tobrown779, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9If I'm not mistaken everyplace has "history". Just some place's history is more interesting than others.
- Krovvy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10Sweet North Carolina gets to be Sweden. d(-_-)b
Botten Anna, high speed internet, and... - fuzzmeister, on 10/11/2007, -7/+14No state has the GDP of a G8 country, so they aren't on there. Not that hard to figure out...
- GGzah, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8I'm not American and even I will call ***** on you.
America may be a lot of things, but lacking in history and culture they are not. - ImYourRealDad, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Now, I know this is based off of the GDP scale, but Massachusetts should totally be Ireland.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"Texas GDP= 1.065 million"
Ummmm... are you sure that isn't "trillion?" - MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -5/+12Canada = Texas
They couldn't be more wrong - staticneuron, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9And treo Why wikipedia is considered a good referance was because of how quickly your edit was found and fixed.
Yes, it is known that you can try to spread disinformation but there are more people working to keep it factual and objective. Continue to mess with it or try to get other people to do so will result in the article being locked and your IP being banned from editing.
all digging him up look again
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_%28nominal%29#List_of_States_by_Gross_State_Product - griz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8What I find interesting is that the GDP of the US is equal to all these countries combined.
- navster15, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Wait, so blue jeans, Coca Cola and Rock 'n' Roll don't count as culture?
- Teku, on 10/11/2007, -12/+18"I just changed New Jersey's GDP to $979B"
You, sir, are my personal hero for today. Keep up the good work. - boituma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Nominal GDP is a valid statistic when comparing across economies with a single monetary policy (basically uniform inflation), such as between US states. However it is not descriptive across economies with varying rates of inflation. Nominal GDP would artificially inflate the GDPs of countries with higher rates of inflation.
Better yet, use purchasing power parity for a comparison of living standards. One of the main uses for GDP figures (and even worse, GNP) is simply to burnish e(conomics)-penis. - Skavenblight, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Paid what you're worth to society? Do I need to remind you how stupidly overpaid CEOs are?
Rednecks can still manage to be rich. Just look at Bush. - mwayne, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Tell me about your hate speech laws, oh free one
- Skavenblight, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5You'd rather live in Iran than in Canada? I suppose your parents were siblings?
- tehpwnrate, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Well, Oregon and Israel each have a "GDP" of about 140 billion.. so yeah.
- BabyWookie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5@ fuzzmeister:
Russia, Canada, France?!?
Though Russia has a much better economy now than it had when this map was created. - doktorrocket, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I think you're missing the fact the Canada's GDP is within 6% of Texas's (1.13 Bil vs 1.07 Bil), based on the various 2006 sources I could find. So close enough for a silly exercise such as this :)
- monkeyrun, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Hong Kong is not a country, but it is a separate political and economic entity.
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