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Alphabetical Cartogram
Poor Weeoming.
Title text: Poor Weeoming.

Explanation

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This comic shows a map of the United States, with every state resized based on where it appears in an alphabetical list of states. Hence Alabama is the largest state, Wyoming is the smallest.


# States by Size States Alphabetically
1 Alaska Alabama
2 Texas Alaska
3 California Arizona
4 Montana Arkansas
5 New Mexico California
6 Arizona Colorado
7 Nevada Connecticut
8 Colorado Delaware
9 Oregon Florida
10 Wyoming Georgia
11 Michigan Hawaii
12 Minnesota Idaho
13 Utah Illinois
14 Idaho Indiana
15 Kansas Iowa
16 Nebraska Kansas
17 South Dakota Kentucky
18 Washington Louisiana
19 North Dakota Maine
20 Oklahoma Maryland
21 Missouri Massachusetts
22 Florida Michigan
23 Wisconsin Minnesota
24 Georgia Mississippi
25 Illinois Missouri
26 Iowa Montana
27 New York Nebraska
28 North Carolina Nevada
29 Arkansas New Hampshire
30 Alabama New Jersey
31 Louisiana New Mexico
32 Mississippi New York
33 Pennsylvania North Carolina
34 Ohio North Dakota
35 Virginia Ohio
36 Tennessee Oklahoma
37 Kentucky Oregon
38 Indiana Pennsylvania
39 Maine Rhode Island
40 South Carolina South Carolina
41 West Virginia South Dakota
42 Maryland Tennessee
43 Hawaii Texas
44 Massachusetts Utah
45 Vermont Vermont
46 New Hampshire Virginia
47 New Jersey Washington
48 Connecticut West Virginia
49 Delaware Wisconsin
50 Rhode Island Wyoming


Looks more like the states were listed alphabetically and sizes were adjusted to match that ranking. States beginning with ‘A’ are biggest and states beginning with ’W’ are tiny.



The title text is a diminutive of Wyoming, making fun of how small it is on this map.

Transcript

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A More Fair Map Instead of giving more area to larger states, this map improves fairness by sizing the states alphabetically.


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