U.S. GDP Compared to the Rest of the World

I was reading a weekly news magazine, and one of the opinion writers pointed out an interesting site called Strange Maps. It has hundreds of strange maps from around the world. There are maps about insane asylum districts in Pennsylvania, the retreat of the Cornish language in England, the potential carving up of Europe had Germany and her allies won World War I and the mocking of Britain's invasion of Afghanistan by naming their provinces after locations in England. The owner just loves maps.

One map in particular is interesting from an economic standpoint and compares each state in the U.S. with a country in the world with an equivalent GDP. California's GDP is about the same size as France. New Jersey is equivalent to Russia. Nevada is Ireland. Etc, etc. Here is a list of GDP's of each state and the list. Here is the map that renames every state in the U.S. with its equivalent country.

It is very interesting to see how the U.S. GDP stacks up to the rest of the world and puts into perspective what other countries produce compared to the United States.