The blue regions constitute 50% of the EU’s total nominal GDP

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1. Could the super serial not a bot share the sauce?

2. The grey regions constitute 50% of the EU’s total nominal GDP.

3. So did you sort nuts 2 regions from biggest to smallest gdp and then added numbers until you reached 50% gdp?

4. Poor Croatia got removed from the EU

5. You could probably make it smaller if you take smaller regions with higher GDP per square kilometer.
   Belgium Netherlands regions, more capitals etc.

6. What a surprise that big cities have the most people.

7. Maybe Denmark should annex Slesvig and Holstein?

8. r/PeopleLiveInCities is the place for astonishing insights like this.

9. C’mon guys lock in, we can’t carry you this hard anymore.

10. Ireland just being hench as a whole

11. Anyone who has been to Ireland knows their GDP is so hilariously inflated.

    Dublin is like visiting an Eastern Bloc city just after the wall came down, only with much worse infrastructure.

12. So as the comments are saying these regions also contain most of the population, out of curiosity I checked OP’s source and pasted the table in excel… these regions have a total population of 170M.

    I’m assuming assume OP was careful enough to exclude the UK regions from the table before determining these regions make 50% of the total GDP.

13. And what percentage of population?

14. That’s pre-2013 French regions

15. Well I mean Lombardy alone has like 10 million inhab. so of course its GDP is sky high.

    And Italy alone adds up to 35 million people lol.

    – Lombardy: 10 mil
    – Piedmont: 4 mil.
    – Veneto: 4 mil.
    – Emilia-Romagna: 4 mil.
    – Tuscany: 3 mil.
    – Latium: 5 mil.
    – Campania: 5 mil.

16. This must be a old map cuz croatia isnt in the eu here.

17. Support for independence of Lombardy, Piedmont,ancient lands of Aragon and Brittany.

18. To add some context: EU sector breakdown from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union):

    Primary (agriculture): 1.5% of GDP. Secondary (manufacturing): 23.8% of GDP. Tertiary (services): 64.7% of GDP.

19. Please don’t include Berlin. So, blue regions can get +1%

20. r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT

21. The regions with big cities contribute most to the economy, what a surprise

22. Population-wise pretty much 50/50 or close to.

23. I had no idea Andalusia was this productive. Is that mostly tourism revenue?

24. Why so many posts about GDP in this sub???

25. Get rekt Donegal

26. This is so random

27. Why is Croatia light grey?

28. Huh wonder what lies in the blue zones might it be ports such as ARA AKA Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp

29. And how much of the population lives in blue zones?

30. In Poland it’s just Warsaw, everything else is pretty much a shithole just like the rest of the east

31. Mykonos should be there too

32. (almost) complete Irish victory

33. Let me guess, the blue regions constitute 50% of the EU’s total population.

34. Go on Ireland

35. Something’s wrong with the french regions

36. Sources ?

37. how is this selected? as few regions as possible? so large regions are favoured over small regions with higher economic output per person?

    or according to the smallest possible area? although that can’t be the case in italy at least

38. Fucking Ireland basically carrying the EU