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minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·7 months agoHow is this alphabetical? I keep looking for some logic to it but I can’t find it
minus-squareVeryVitolinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·7 months agoStates get smaller in alphabetical order. Alabama is huge, while West Virginia is tiny.
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoStates 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-up1·7 months agoThat’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-up1·7 months agoBut which map projection is he using?
minus-squareLesrid@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoMaybe he took all the current areas of the states. Then reassigned them alphabetically. Rather than creating new areas.
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 months agoI don’t know, it’s a dumb concept anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How is this alphabetical? I keep looking for some logic to it but I can’t find it
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?
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)_/¯