US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs

Re:US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs by Dauntless on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @07:54AM (#119628)

That's exactly why I would downvote this if I could. It's a misleading article that he stolen from someone else (because I've seen this many times on different blogs) and has tons of bogus data that no one checks.

About Russia: In 1987 the GDP was: USA : 5,093,396 USSR: 1,965,457

P.S. nukes don't care about GDP.

P.P.S. In 2007 EU had a GDP of $16,574 trillion and USA: $13.794 trillion. So it would be easier to make a map the other way around.

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Re:US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs by mdemare on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @11:53AM (#119781)

Here's the data:

countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

us states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_(nominal)

It doesn't seem extremely inaccurate. I'd compare California with Italy, not France, and Texas with Brazil, not Canada. And Russia's economy is more New York than New Jersey.

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Re:US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs by pg on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @11:37AM (#119770)

Where's the map stolen from? We can switch the link to the original source.

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Re:US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs by Dauntless on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @11:56AM (#119783)

I don't know what is the original source... http://www.google.com/search?q=US+States+Renamed+For+Countri... I may have been too fast to judge that it isn't the original, because it's very popular and being just another blog didn't seem extremely accurate... I can't edit that out now anyway.

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