This Brilliant Map Renames Each US State With A Country Generating The Same GDP

Business Insider ^ | February 12, 2014, 4:59 PM | STEVEN PERLBERG

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Arkansas=Angola?
And to think, I used to live in Oklahoma=NZ!

[RegulatorCountry]

Also noted the completely “gone” industries that were in NC and now overseas: furniture building, textile manufacturing

Contrary to popular perception, they're not gone. Decimated, yes, but still here. We're experiencing something of a resurgence in manufacturing employment of late thanks to inexpensive natural gas from fracking.

NC is a financial center (Charlotte primarily) as well as something of a tech hub (Research Triangle Park), in addition to the traditional industries you mentioned.

[John S Mosby]

Damn good question. From what I can tell, it is grower specific... like burley directed to chewing tobacco. Cigarettes.... zimbabwe. Rolling leaf for quality cigars still comes from CT as it has for many years. Not well informed beyond that.
Was just amazed they would get tobacco from a marxist nightmare country... because the cash is raked off by mugabe to Switzerland.

[PUGACHEV]

Wait a minute, Maryland is Columbia or Hungary? Which is it?

[X-spurt]

What’s with the parsing words? Are we playing what “is, is”?

A “any-state” is a State = a country.

Hong Kong was a part of the UK. Singapore was the same until they separated, then they were a State or Country. Hong Kong went from UK to PRC, nothing in between.

[zeugma]

Texas: canada or austrailia. Works for me.

[editor-surveyor]

Australia is in horrible shape!

Texas has to be doing better.

[Wuli]

At AEI there is an updated version for 2013, which includes some changes in nations identified with some states.

I thought a better comparison was per capita GDP, which regardless of total size reflects the productivity of the population, whatever its size.

From that, I used Internet available data sets, and I made a list of the states, ranked high to low by GDP per capita (in 1,000s) and included the nations that fall into the per capita GDP ranges of the states.

Here it is:

Wash. D.C. 145,663 Qatar 131, 758
Luxembourg 90,790
Kuwait 85,660
Singapore 78,744
Brunei 71,759
Norway 65,461
Delaware 61,183
Alaska 61,156
UAE 58,042
North Dakota 55,250
Connecticut 54,925
Wyoming 54,305
Saudi Arabia 53,780
Switzerland 53,672
Massachusetts 53,221
Hong Kong 53,203
New York 53,067
Bermuda 53,030
New Jersey 49,430
Oregon 48,069
Washington 47,146
Virginia 47,127
Minnesota 47,028
Maryland 46,720
Texas 46,498
Colorado 46,242
Illinois 46,151
California 46,029
Nebraska 44,943
Hawaii 44,442
Austria 44,149
Oman 44,052
Bahrain 43,824
Australia 43,550
Sweden 43,533
Netherlands 43,404
Germany 43,332
Ireland 43,304
Canada 43,247
South Dakota 43,181
Louisiana 43,145
New Hampshire 42,958
Denmark 42,764
Iowa 42,222
Rhode Island 41,678
Kansas 41,070
Nevada 41,029
Belgium 40,338
N. Carolina 40,289
Pennsylvania 40,063
Iceland 39,996
Wisconsin 39,308
Utah 39,158
Indiana 39,065
Finland 38,251
Vermont 38,198
Georgia 37,702
Ohio 37,690
Tennessee 37,254
France 36,907
Missouri 36,815
Japan 36,315
Oklahoma 36,252
U.K. 36,197
Aruba 36,016
Michigan 35,298
Arizona 35,195
New Zealand 34,826
Florida 34,802
Puerto Rico 34,744
Maine 34,597
Italy 34,303
New Mexico 33,900
Equatorial Guinea 33,720
Kentucky 33,519
Montana 33,204
Korea, South 33,140
Israel 32,760
Alabama 32,615
Spain 32,103
Idaho 31,945
S. Carolina 31,881
Arkansas 31,837
Trinidad & Tobago 30,439
West Virginia 30,389
Malta 30,213
Cyprus 29,450
Mississippi 28,944
Slovenia 28,298
Czech Republic 27,344
Slovakia 26,114

What’s interesting is the highest ones per capita - where Washington D.C. is the U.S. highest per capita area, and Qatar is highest per capita for the countries.

[Windflier]

Cool!

Aye, mate. Shall we throw some shrimp on the barbie to celebrate Texas style?

[dfwgator]

And I remember when I went to Europe and people ask where I’m from, I never said the US, I always say, I’m from Texas.

I wonder how many other States that’s the case when people travel abroad, Does anyone say, “I’m from California”?

[Windflier]

It’s looking like Texas is more productive than Canada ( more GDP produce with less population ), but it a little less productive than Australia ( less GDP produced with more population ).

Hmm... I'll betcha Australia just doesn't report the true number of illegals in their country. We do.

(how'd I do, Texans?)

[VRWCarea51]

I want to be a blood diamond merchant. ;)

[Ingtar]

Monaco, Singapore, and Vatican City are considered Sovereign city-states, not countries. Hong Kong and Macau are Non-sovereign city-states. Ceuta and Melilla are sort of in limbo.

[Windflier]

Does anyone say, “I’m from California”?

I used to, when I lived in England. Funny thing is, they'd always look at me and say, "We know that."

[humblegunner]

Too right, Cobber!

[Hawthorn]

>> Anyone can make waffles. It’s just heated dough. <<

Oh yeah?

Then how-come Belgian waffles are world famous, whereas nobody really cares about Moroccan waffles, Bosnian waffles, Chinese waffles, Nigerian waffles, or the waffles of just about any country?

Answer:

Because after beer and battlefields, waffles are Belgium’s most noteworthy phenomenon — and deservedly so!

[CARDINALRULES]

Saw that the other day. Some of the others were very funny too.

[Hawthorn]

>> Monaco, Singapore, and Vatican City are considered Sovereign city-states, not countries <<

Very sorry to be critical, but you’re 100% wrong. They are fully recognized in international law as countries. The fact that they also are “cities” is irrelevant.

>> Hong Kong and Macau are Non-sovereign city-states <<

A “city-state” is sovereign by definition. To call HK and Macau “non-sovereign city-states” is basically an oxymoron. HK and Macau now are administrative regions of China, and have been in this status since the late 1990’s, although they used to be colonies of the UK and Portugal, respectively.

(Also, Hong Kong is not altogether a city, because it still has rural regions.)

>> Ceuta and Melilla are sort of in limbo. <<

Huh? In limbo? Certainly not as far as Spain and the rest of the non-Muslim world is concerned. Under Spanish law, they are “autonomous cities” of Spain, and majorities of their residents are full Spanish citizens (mostly Christians or “nominal” Christians). These residents have regular Spanish passports and full voting rights both for the Spanish parliament and for the EU parliament.

[Skooz]

bump

[Oztrich Boy]

Not a demotion, but not holding position.

Since 2007 Canada has surged to California level (which basically held postion a 1.9 Teradollars.) Texas increased some, but not as much as Oz.