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Revision as of 09:15, 8 February 2016
Welcome to the explain xkcd wiki!
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Alphabetical Cartogram |
Title text: Poor Weeoming. |
Explanation
This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Created by an SUSPICIOUSLY SMALLER-THAN-USUAL BOT - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon. |
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.
- [A labeled map of the United States where states are resized based on their alphabetic order]
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Don't be a jerk.
There are a lot of comics that don't have set-in-stone explanations; feel free to put multiple interpretations in the wiki page for each comic.
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Please only submit material directly related to (and helping everyone better understand) xkcd... and of course only submit material that can legally be posted (and freely edited). Off-topic or other inappropriate content is subject to removal or modification at admin discretion, and users who repeatedly post such content will be blocked.
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