These highlighted parts make up 50% of the world's GDP
These highlighted parts make up 50% of the world's GDP
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This could probably get a lot smaller if they went by city statistics instead of state, 80% of Texas is essentially rural land/desert very little people live in.
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Doesn't include the world's fourth-largest economy ... so what's the criteria here?
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I think they factored in GDP per square mile, plus a constraint that it should be a contiguous area per region and probably another constraint that they wanted to highlight an area in North America, Europe and Asia.
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Agreed.
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I highly doubt west Virginia and Alabama are pulling their weights here
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Out of curiosity, I just looked up Alabama's GDP, and it's similar to the country of Portugal.
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It should come to no suprise, alabama's economy is proped up by the fed. The biggest employers is Redstone arsenal and Anniston Army Depot and all the support industries around them.
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Why are only part of the named countries colored?
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So it correlates to the major urban population centers of the 1st world...? Makes sense.
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Most of them, it excludes the American west coast while including the poorest regions in the country (Appalachia and the deep south, neither of which can really be considered developed)
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where is California in all this?
why exclude Paris too?seems too arbitrary… what are the criteria?
I assume they intentionally left out some to round out the numbers a bit and hit 50% in a more interesting way without over half of it being the US.
Paris is included, but not the regions south of it:
Nantes is wheat fields 🤔 all of Normandy and Brittany too
my bad, for paris i had to zoom a little bit more
It includes paris. and the rest is like mostly wheats fields so that’s why it didn’t get included
The other 50%, it is on the west side of the United States.