GDP map

Dan Kedmey has a Time article about GDP:

How does the US economy measure up to the rest of the world? You could find out by poring over a table of GDP figures, or you could get a snap perspective from the above map, which renames every US state according to a country with a matching GDP.
One million Rhode Islanders have as much wealth as fifteen million Guatemalans. Texas has an economy the size of Australia’s. And New York has met its match in Mexico.
The map ,from economist Mark J. Perry at the American Enterprise Institute, puts America’s sixteen-trillion-dollar GDP in perspective. “The map and these statistics help remind us of the enormity of the economic powerhouse we live in,” Perry writes, at least to the four percent of the world’s population that lives there.

Rico says at least Pennsylvania is doing as well as Switzerland...