A map of what every state would be if it were a country

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The American economy is really big. That’s the takeaway of this fascinating map of the United States from Mark Perry, an economist who runs the Carpe Diem blog at the American Enterprise Institute.

The map, which has been around for a while, has a lot of explanatory power when it comes to America's position in the global economy. For each state, Perry finds a country that had a roughly similarly sized economy in 2013.