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Title text: Poor Weeoming. |
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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.
Wyoming shrank the most, while Delaware grew the largest proportionally in geographical size. In the ranking of US states by area, Texas's position dropped the most (41 places), while Delaware and Connecticut's positions rose the most (also 41 places).
This coincides with a recent study from the University of Michigan showing that the alphabetical order of surnames leads to differences in grading.
The title text creates a portmanteau of the words “wee,” which means “little,” and “Wyoming,” making fun of how small it is on this map, since "W" appears at the end of the alphabet.
Bias resulting from alphabetical order was also the topic of 2789: Making Plans.
Table of states
Real Life | Listings | |||||
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State | Total Area | % of the US |
Area # |
Alpha # |
Rank dif. | |
sq mi | km2 | |||||
Alaska | 665,384 | 1,723,337 | 17.53% | 1 | 2 | 1 ▼ |
Texas | 268,596 | 695,662 | 7.07% | 2 | 43 | 41 ▼ |
California | 163,695 | 423,970 | 4.31% | 3 | 5 | 2 ▼ |
Montana | 147,040 | 380,800 | 3.87% | 4 | 26 | 22 ▼ |
New Mexico | 121,590 | 314,915 | 3.20% | 5 | 31 | 26 ▼ |
Arizona | 113,990 | 295,254 | 3.00% | 6 | 3 | 3 ▲ |
Nevada | 110,572 | 286,382 | 2.91% | 7 | 28 | 21 ▼ |
Colorado | 104,094 | 269,601 | 2.74% | 8 | 6 | 2 ▲ |
Oregon | 98,379 | 254,806 | 2.59% | 9 | 37 | 28 ▼ |
Wyoming | 97,813 | 253,335 | 2.58% | 10 | 50 | 40 ▼ |
Michigan | 96,714 | 250,493 | 2.55% | 11 | 22 | 11 ▼ |
Minnesota | 86,936 | 225,163 | 2.29% | 12 | 23 | 11 ▼ |
Utah | 84,897 | 219,882 | 2.24% | 13 | 44 | 31 ▼ |
Idaho | 83,569 | 216,443 | 2.20% | 14 | 12 | 2 ▲ |
Kansas | 82,278 | 213,100 | 2.17% | 15 | 16 | 1 ▼ |
Nebraska | 77,348 | 200,330 | 2.04% | 16 | 27 | 11 ▼ |
South Dakota | 77,116 | 199,729 | 2.03% | 17 | 41 | 24 ▼ |
Washington | 71,298 | 184,661 | 1.88% | 18 | 47 | 29 ▼ |
North Dakota | 70,698 | 183,108 | 1.86% | 19 | 34 | 15 ▼ |
Oklahoma | 69,899 | 181,037 | 1.841% | 20 | 36 | 16 ▼ |
Missouri | 69,707 | 180,540 | 1.836% | 21 | 25 | 4 ▼ |
Florida | 65,758 | 170,312 | 1.732% | 22 | 9 | 13 ▲ |
Wisconsin | 65,496 | 169,635 | 1.725% | 23 | 49 | 26 ▼ |
Georgia | 59,425 | 153,910 | 1.565% | 24 | 10 | 14 ▲ |
Illinois | 57,914 | 149,995 | 1.525% | 25 | 13 | 12 ▲ |
Iowa | 56,273 | 145,746 | 1.482% | 26 | 15 | 11 ▲ |
New York | 54,555 | 141,297 | 1.437% | 27 | 32 | 5 ▼ |
North Carolina | 53,819 | 139,391 | 1.418% | 28 | 33 | 5 ▼ |
Arkansas | 53,179 | 137,732 | 1.401% | 29 | 4 | 25 ▲ |
Alabama | 52,420 | 135,767 | 1.381% | 30 | 1 | 29 ▲ |
Louisiana | 52,378 | 135,659 | 1.380% | 31 | 18 | 13 ▲ |
Mississippi | 48,432 | 125,438 | 1.276% | 32 | 24 | 8 ▲ |
Pennsylvania | 46,054 | 119,280 | 1.213% | 33 | 38 | 5 ▼ |
Ohio | 44,826 | 116,098 | 1.181% | 34 | 35 | 1 ▼ |
Virginia | 42,775 | 110,787 | 1.127% | 35 | 46 | 11 ▼ |
Tennessee | 42,144 | 109,153 | 1.110% | 36 | 42 | 6 ▼ |
Kentucky | 40,408 | 104,656 | 1.064% | 37 | 17 | 20 ▲ |
Indiana | 36,420 | 94,326 | 0.959% | 38 | 14 | 24 ▲ |
Maine | 35,380 | 91,633 | 0.932% | 39 | 19 | 20 ▲ |
South Carolina | 32,020 | 82,933 | 0.843% | 40 | 40 | 0 ◀ |
West Virginia | 24,230 | 62,756 | 0.638% | 41 | 48 | 7 ▼ |
Maryland | 12,406 | 32,131 | 0.327% | 42 | 20 | 22 ▲ |
Hawaii | 10,932 | 28,313 | 0.288% | 43 | 11 | 32 ▲ |
Massachusetts | 10,554 | 27,336 | 0.278% | 44 | 21 | 23 ▲ |
Vermont | 9,616 | 24,906 | 0.253% | 45 | 45 | 0 ◀ |
New Hampshire | 9,349 | 24,214 | 0.246% | 46 | 29 | 17 ▲ |
New Jersey | 8,723 | 22,591 | 0.230% | 47 | 30 | 17 ▲ |
Connecticut | 5,543 | 14,357 | 0.146% | 48 | 7 | 41 ▲ |
Delaware | 2,489 | 6,446 | 0.066% | 49 | 8 | 41 ▲ |
Rhode Island | 1,545 | 4,001 | 0.041% | 50 | 39 | 11 ▲ |
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 alphabetical order]
Discussion
Make changes, try things out, or just have fun with the wiki here! Just leave everything above the line alone, please.
This is a test. PoolloverNathan[stalk the blue seas] 20:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
- This is not. —While False (museum | talk | contributions | logs | rights | printable version | page information | what links there | related changes | Google search | current time: 00:43) 18:38, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
- A foreign student asked me to help fight against his math teacher. That was unusual. He was in that class for just a couple of weeks. The teacher's phone number was sent to me. The student asked me to spam-call the teacher. 172.71.155.55 22:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
here i'm just messing around in html, ignore this
furhhfghure guyrburgryhuyvfr "rvhru"
interesting way of writing quotations xd
- hmmm this one of putting "<p>" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line
hi uh its hard to get here. is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
108.162.241.216 02:05, 23 November 2023 (UTC) </div></div>
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Discussion
Make changes, try things out, or just have fun with the wiki here! Just leave everything above the line alone, please.
This is a test. PoolloverNathan[stalk the blue seas] 20:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
- This is not. —While False (museum | talk | contributions | logs | rights | printable version | page information | what links there | related changes | Google search | current time: 00:43) 18:38, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
- A foreign student asked me to help fight against his math teacher. That was unusual. He was in that class for just a couple of weeks. The teacher's phone number was sent to me. The student asked me to spam-call the teacher. 172.71.155.55 22:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
here i'm just messing around in html, ignore this
furhhfghure guyrburgryhuyvfr "rvhru" <p>interesting way of writing quotations xd
- hmmm this one of putting "<p>" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line
edit: da hek did that "</div>" come from An user who has no account yet (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
hi uh its hard to get here.
is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
108.162.241.216 02:05, 23 November 2023 (UTC)