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The Hammer

What do South Korea and Florida have in common? GDP.

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

pesawattahi · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:52 am Post subject:

Dude that is funny but sad, no wonder people have the ol' envy.

Benicio · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject:

Peninsulas with similar GDP.
Those are the only things they have in common!

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

Interesting. My home state of Mass is hanging with Belgium.

Seems a little hard to believe that NY has the same GDP as Brazil. Could be true, but that map raises my eyebrows. And NJ is the same as Russia?

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I'm from Iowa, population 3 million (just under). We have the same GDP as Venezuela (minus Chavez) which has a population of 25 million.

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject:

Florida is much bigger in size:

Florida 54,153 square miles
South Korea 38,022 square miles

Little Korea fightin'!

Corky · Joined: 06 Jan 2004

Both are home to majority of people who speak English with a heavy accent.

Kuros · Joined: 27 Apr 2004

That map is misleading. Its based on nominal currency values, and thus does not account for reduced costs of living.

Here's a new map that accounts for purchase power parity. Note that Korea has now been elevated to being the economic equal of New York state.

Unless you really think the world's second-most nuclear power has the economic might of New Jersey.

Hanson · Joined: 20 Oct 2004

Stoakley · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Location: Florea

Being a Floridian I can assure you that both Korea and Florida have a slew of immigrants/aliens (legal and illegal) that can't speak the "official" language of the adopted homeland and that it should be more like their original homeland.

Cheers,

Stoakley

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject:

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Let us not forget the humidity.

I reviewed your map, Kuros. I had no idea things were so bad in Croatia, Sri Lanka, and Turmenistan... Wink

thepeel · Joined: 08 Aug 2004

It has Italy or Canada as being similar to California at PPP.

According to the CIA factbook (figures 2007)

Italy

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$1.8 trillion (2007 est.)

Canada

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$1.274 trillion (2007 est.)

And according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis
California
$1,622,116 (2005 est.)

Quite the spread, no?

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

It'd be better to do it per capita.

The orignal map is neat, but it's pretty misleading when you have Rhode Island = Vietnam.

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

Australia has disappeared from the purchase power parity map, & has been replaced with Sweden for Ohio. Maybe they confused it with Austria?

Florida & South Korea both have hurricanes / typhoons, btw.