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

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ratbastid

Sweden!

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

Jetée

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.)

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—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Craven Morehead

very interesting, very cool

Baraka_Guru

Wait, I live in Texas?

Don't mess with Canada!

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

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—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Jetée

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



“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.”

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Baraka_Guru

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

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Hektore

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.

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ktspktsp

I love "Strange Maps" .

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

388 – US States As Countries of Equal Population



And Lebanon is there! As Kentucky...

CinnamonGirl

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

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bobby

very cool stuff.xoxoxoo

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Jetée

more examples of "Strange Maps"


The World, according to Americans

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

SecretMethod70

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

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"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

Jetée

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):

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Baraka_Guru

okay, that last one is awesome.

...triple fail

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

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

SecretMethod70

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



Bonus...

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"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

Jetée

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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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Baraka_Guru

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."

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Jetée

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



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


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

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Shauk

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



updated with call centers and zoo animals

snowy

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.

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KirStang

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

Jetée

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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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Jetée

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Jetée

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Jetée

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).


[strangemaps.]

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Eilonwy

That Reagan map is hysterical!

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.

Jetée

by chris killeen


[beginbeing.]

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Jetée

"As an Irishman, this is how I see the world."


[netcrema.]

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Jetée

USA Sitcom Map



[danmeth.]

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi