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minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·6 个月前How is this alphabetical? I keep looking for some logic to it but I can’t find it
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up35arrow-down1·6 个月前States starting with A are huge, states starting with W are tiny. (If there were states starting with Z they’d be even smaller)
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·6 个月前That’s what I originally thought, but if you compare Maine and Alaska, the sizes aren’t much different to my eye
minus-squarewjrii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 个月前But which map projection is he using?
minus-squareLesrid@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 个月前Maybe he took all the current areas of the states. Then reassigned them alphabetically. Rather than creating new areas.
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-26 个月前I don’t know, it’s a dumb concept anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
minus-squareAnamnesis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 个月前Yeah, Hawaii is huge and Idaho is way smaller than it actually is, despite it being right behind Hawaii, alphabetically.
minus-squareVeryVito@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·6 个月前States get smaller in alphabetical order. Alabama is huge, while West Virginia is tiny.
How is this alphabetical? I keep looking for some logic to it but I can’t find it
States starting with A are huge, states starting with W are tiny. (If there were states starting with Z they’d be even smaller)
That’s what I originally thought, but if you compare Maine and Alaska, the sizes aren’t much different to my eye
But which map projection is he using?
Maybe he took all the current areas of the states. Then reassigned them alphabetically. Rather than creating new areas.
I don’t know, it’s a dumb concept anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then why is Hawaii fucking massive?
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Yeah, Hawaii is huge and Idaho is way smaller than it actually is, despite it being right behind Hawaii, alphabetically.
States get smaller in alphabetical order. Alabama is huge, while West Virginia is tiny.
What’s going on with Hawaii, then?
Total land area, maybe?