Monday, June 18, 2007

Strange Maps

This is very cool. It is a map of the United States with the names of other countries with similar GDP's to that individual state! Click the map to enlarge it.

3 comments:

  1. Be prepared ... I am gunna ask you an extremly stupid question: whats a GDP?

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  2. Coldie,

    Here is your answer:

    "Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a convenient way of measuring and comparing the size of national economies. Annual GDP represents the market value of all goods and services produced within a country in a year. Put differently:

    GDP = consumption + investment + government spending + (exports – imports)

    Although the economies of countries like China and India are growing at an incredible rate, the US remains the nation with the highest GDP in the world – and by far: US GDP is projected to be $13,22 trillion (or $13,220 billion) in 2007, according to this source. That’s almost as much as the economies of the next four (Japan, Germany, China, UK) combined."

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  3. wow,

    Well thank you. I seem to learn something new everytime I come onto your site.

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