Based on the graphics I see passed around the friends of my Twitter feed, it’s really popular to make maps that equate states of the United States (America) to nations of the world, in terms of population, or gross domestic product, or area, or what have you. And since lists of statistics are unmistakably the most popular thing I write around here, let me get in on the action. For your convenience, here’s a list of the fifty certified United States matched up with one of the world’s nations that has just as many letters in the name.
| United State | Matches Nation |
|---|---|
| Alabama | Uruguay |
| Alaska | Belize |
| Arizona | Burundi |
| Arkansas | Kiribati |
| California | Kyrgyzstan |
| Colorado | Malaysia |
| Connecticut | Cook Islands |
| Delaware | Dominica |
| Florida | Lebanon |
| Georgia | Georgia |
| Hawaii | Latvia |
| Idaho | Japan |
| Illinois | Mongolia |
| Indiana | Romania |
| Iowa | Peru |
| Kansas | Mexico |
| Kentucky | Portugal |
| Louisiana | Nicaragua |
| Maine | Qatar |
| Maryland | Slovenia |
| Massachusetts | Cayman Islands |
| Michigan | Paraguay |
| Minnesota | Venezuela |
| Mississippi | Philippines |
| Missouri | Slovakia |
| Montana | Tunisia |
| Nebraska | Barbados |
| Nevada | Greece |
| New Hampshire | Turkmenistan |
| New Jersey | Singapore |
| New Mexico | Argentina |
| New York | Estonia |
| North Carolina | United Kingdom |
| North Dakota | Sierra Leone |
| Ohio | Mali |
| Oklahoma | Honduras |
| Oregon | Jordan |
| Pennsylvania | United States |
| Rhode Island | Saint Helena |
| South Carolina | Virgin Islands |
| South Dakota | Switzerland |
| Tennessee | Macedonia |
| Texas | Haiti |
| Utah | Oman |
| Vermont | Nigeria |
| Virginia | Djibouti |
| Washington | Bangladesh |
| West Virginia | Guinea-Bissau |
| Wisconsin | Lithuania |
| Wyoming | Jamaica |
I just hope that someone finds this list and discovers how very much time it saves having it on hand.
Oh, I should have made this a picture, shouldn’t I? Too bad.
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It took less time than you think, but, more time than I thought, or I’d have probably started making up country names. It turns out like every United State is eight letters long and there’s three countries that have names that length, and meanwhile, there’s a couple freak cases like Pennsylvania with 13-letters names and nothing matches those. I should have gone with matching the number of syllables in the name instead.
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