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131 – US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs Strange Maps


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Sweden!

... Strangely the girls didn't get any blonder.

So, this makes sense how?

Is it to tell us that CA and VA and FL and NY and TX are the five best states in terms of GDP, for all that statistic is worth? (I'm guessing at the approx. top five states, and by the way, I'm not angry. I'm just trying to understand this map.)

very interesting, very cool

Wait, I live in Texas?

Don't mess with Canada!

Interestingly enough, our populations aren't that far off the mark either.

I don't mean to diss the original post, so think of this more as a theme enhancement:

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“For the past three years, Frank Jacobs’s blog Strange Maps has been an increasingly wonderful trove of creative cartography.
All of the works cataloged in find a unique way to tweak the generic map…
Jacobs’s book is filled with cartographic exercises that range from the historical, like a map of Thomas Jefferson’s proposal for
naming new states in the Northwest territories, to the scientific, like a pie chart of which countries’ coastlines offer direct access to Antarctica.
And then there are the jokes, like the oft-forwarded map of North America divided between the United States of Canada in the north and Jesusland in the south.”

Ha! That one on the right is awesome, Jetée.

If you click the link, the blurb under the picture says it approximates the country with the closest GDP to that state. So, in the case of California, if California were it's own country it's GDP would fall at the #8 spot on the list of countries ranked by GDP (Highest to lowest). That is where France resides(or resided with the list was made), so It becomes France.

Or, much more simply, France has about the same GDP as California.

I love "Strange Maps" :).

Here's another - and somewhat similar - entry from that blog:

388 – US States As Countries of Equal Population

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And Lebanon is there! As Kentucky...

Oooh, I'm Australia. G'day, mates.

very cool stuff.xoxoxoo

more examples of "Strange Maps"

http://9gag.com/photo/5058_540.jpg
The World, according to Americans

I love the not-so-subtle omission of Africa in that map Jetee

Yeah, that is both a harsh and hilarious reality that we Americans do not like to bring up.

another example of why (courtesy of 4chan):
http://9gag.com/photo/11336_540.jpg

:lol: okay, that last one is awesome.

...triple fail

(Not mentioning the missing apostrophe in "That's"...)

oh man... reminds me of a REALLY sad lamebook from the other day...

http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/u...AWEgraphy1.png

Bonus...

http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/u...AWEgraphy3.png

another "personalized" mapping,

"The World according to Ronald Reagan"
(only click the above link if you have the urge to view the map at 1567x1045 resolution)

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They still have schools, right?


I'm pretty sure a school I went to had a similar Reagan map. But as a joke.... seriously. I remember it called the U.S.S.R. the "Evil Empire."

an actual example of an "evil empire" geography class:

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and to take it literally, the "evil empire's" map coordinates:

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to click for "larger" is a must | on display in the Belgium capital

I don't know how you performed that magic voodoo, cuz when I clicked on that link I got this map

http://02varvara.files.wordpress.com...-americans.jpg

updated with call centers and zoo animals

So...apparently I live in Israel and Palestine. Is that even possible?

According to Reagan, I am an environmental freak and a quiche-eater. I plead guilty.

By the way, the Jesusland/United States of Canada is very popular here. ;)

The two states I'm from are both asian (Hong Kong and S. Korea). How fitting. :D

I don't know how I did that either, (i was working with multipe sources, maybe0 but I guess the original creator of the map realized he forgot Africa and India, and added them back in, or someone else completed the map, with the original offensive shtick that was prevalent in the first added to describe those locations originally omitted.

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AI map (really need to click-thru to view anything at all)

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What a great way this map is to present global levels of wine consumption (red wine, 2006). A shame there’s no legend to provide context (by way of litres consumed per country, a ranking and a bit of explanation).


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That Reagan map is hysterical! :lol:

I have a cousin, from the rural south (not saying anything here... just a fact, that's where she's from) who refused to go to college because they 'couldn't teach her anything she didn't already know'. A few weeks later, in two subsequent conversations, I learned she truly thought 1) the moon was stationary in the sky, and you can see it when the earth turns you back around to face it again, and 2) Washington DC was in Washington state. :shakehead:

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