No 37: Your country compared to US states

DID you know California has the same GDP as France and Ohio the same as Australia? Here is a map which shows the states of the USA and which countries match their GDP levels:

(Click on the map if you want to make it bigger.)

It comes from one of my favourite blogs - "Strange Maps" http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ .

The USA is not the biggest country in the world nor the richest. But, as the map shows, it is certainly the richest big country.

(By the way, if you need to know the real names of the US states, go to this http://www.onlineatlas.us/map/united-states-map.gif )