{"id":4974,"date":"2008-01-16T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4974"},"modified":"2008-01-16T16:33:46","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T21:33:46","slug":"india_is_florid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/india_is_florid\/","title":{"rendered":"India Is Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How?  Well, through some random web surfing, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/10\/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps\/\" >this map which renames US states<\/a> based on the countries whose total GDP&#8217;s they most resemble.   It&#8217;s a fascinating visualization of how wealth is distributed in this country &#038; around the world &#8211; <\/p>\n\n<p><CENTER ><a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/10\/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps\/\" ><img class=picture height=327 hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/350816052_1.jpg\" width=500 border=0  ><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<div align=left > <\/div>\n\n<div align=left >India isn&#8217;t pictured but, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theodora.com\/wfbcurrent\/india\/india_economy.html\" >GDP just shy of $800B<\/a>, it would come in at roughly the same computed GDP as Florida (Florida&#8217;s the #3 US State ahead of NY?  that doesn&#8217;t seem 100% right but oh well).  As the map maker notes, this is strictly a $$$ calculation -adjusting this on a <EM >per capita<\/em> basis would likely create a pretty sparse map and turn up some interesting comparison points &#8211; <\/div>\n\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px\" >\n<div align=left >Pakistan, for example, has a GDP that&#8217;s slightly higher than Israel&#8217;s &#8211; but Pakistan has a population of about 170 million, while Israel is only 7 million people strong. The US states those economies are compared with (Arkansas and Oregon, respectively) are much closer to each other in population: 2,7 million and 3,4 million.<\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How? Well, through some random web surfing, I came across this map which renames US states based on the countries whose total GDP&#8217;s they most resemble. It&#8217;s a fascinating visualization of how wealth is distributed in this country &#038; around &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/india_is_florid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}