Florida is to Korea as Texas is to Canada

by Kaitlin | June 26, 2007 at 02:59 pm

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You heard us, retirees: get out your Kimchi and your Nukes. A map of the United States created by The York Group has broken the GDP of the country into that of each individual state, and compared that GDP to that of a country. The results are...well, interesting (but perhaps not altogether accurate; see below). Floridians and Koreans are nice and cozy, as are Texans and Canadians (some Albertans I know would heartily agree). I also enjoy California as France, and the Hawaiian Nigeria. Watch for banking scams that say "Send my cousin Mahalo $2000, he lost his legs in a shark attack."

The creator of this map had the interesting idea to break down that US GDP into the GDPs of individual states, and compare those to other countries GDPs. What follows is this slightly misleading map, because the economies of the US states and of the countries they are compared with are not weighted for their respective populations.