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Imagining Chinese Girth February 25, 2011

An awesome chart from the Economist compares the GDP, GDP/person, and population of various Chinese provinces to entire countries. We learn that the average resident of Shanghai is about as rich as the average Saudi, while the average resident of Gansu is as rich as the average Iraqi. Also interesting- Sichuan has as many people as Germany, and the province where I was born, Hubei, is as populous as Italy.