Monday, January 12, 2009

Two maps

Size
Heft
What strikes me about the second one is what a unproductive country the US is relative to its size, but I suppose that comes from a West European.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

West European?! You're a Brit! My grandmother would be spinning in her grave.

Australia has the same GDP as Florida? The last time I was down there, all I saw were oranges and old people.

Anonymous said...

Bring on the Euro.

Anonymous said...

Australia is actually a bit bigger

Australia
Population 19,855,288 (2006)
GDP (2007) - $762.887 billion

Florida
18,328,340 (2008 est.)
GDP -$713.5 billion

Anonymous said...

Never mind Europeans and Brits, is this really true:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1160699