[evmar]

I was curious about comparisons like the ones you're making between US states and EU countries and made this little app, maybe you'll find it useful!

https://evmar.github.io/states/

[alephnerd]

It's a good tool! That said, I also recommend looking at European (and other) nations from a subnational lens as well.

The North-South divide in Italy, the FRG/GDR divide in Germany, Northeast and Southern versus Central France, and various other representations of spatial inequality exist within Europe as well.

The reality is a Parisian, Londonian, and New Yorker have much more overlap with each other than they do with their own compatriots, yet it is this class that is overrepresented in any discourse on social and traditional media.

[evmar]

Thanks, I'd love to add them! Do you have a good source for this data? I did a quick look at the site you linked above and I'm not sure whether it has numbers for GDP or landmass for these regions.

[alephnerd]

This group at IMR Radboud [0] has been working on subnational inequality for over a decade

The reality is landmass and stuff doesn't matter as much as HDI which acts as a lossy indicator of development.

[0] - https://globaldatalab.org/