[5]By Bill Conerly,
Conerly Consulting, Businomics [6]
The Economist [7] magazine has a terrific map showing for each state the country it comes closest to in terms of GDP.
Notes below:
The magazine’s online edition has an interactive map [9] with the actual numbers, as well as an option to look at population rather than GDP.
Surprise: Oregon is about the same size as Pakistan? I wouldn’t have guessed. Then I looked at Washington State, which is about the size of Greece. And now I know that Greece’s economy is larger than Pakistan’s.