MAP: US GDP Concentration
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Reddit user atrubetskoy created a map showing just how important cities are to the American economy. Atrubetskoy took gross metropolitan product data — the total of economic activity in a metropolitan area, and the equivalent of gross domestic product for cities — and noted that the top 23 cities have GMPs that add up to about to half of overall United States GDP.
Yikes.
Some places just aren't pulling their weight! lol To be fair, it probably correlates pretty well with population ;)
110 million people in the orange areas, 200 million in the blue:
http://pandawhale.com/post/37904/where-the-gdp-of-the-usa-is-produced
MSAGMP
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA1358416
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA765759
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI571008
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX449439
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV448741
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX420340
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD364009
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA360395
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH336232
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA294589
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL274105
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA258819
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI220167
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI208379
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ201653
San Diego-Carlsbad, CA177410
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA173908
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO167886
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD157260
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA146975
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC137189
St. Louis, MO-IL136677
Pittsburgh, PA123577
5:01 PM Feb 19 2014