Isn’t that the state with the highest percentage of the vote for Trump?
I got a lot of mileage out of this when I studied in Cork. My home county is three quarters the size of Connaught, with less population than the city of Wicklow. To me it was one of the most crowded places (taking the whole island) I’d been.
>According to a 2020 state report, South Dakota’s burgeoning trust industry holds an estimated $367bn (£273bn) in assets, a sum approaching the annual economic output of the Republic of Ireland – up from $75.5bn in 2011. The phenomenal growth has been supercharged by the state’s aggressive drive to attract money by shielding trust owners’ assets from foreign governments, taxes and even former spouses.
Lads were are ye getting these size comparisons from ? This one was so egregious I had to look it up.
Ireland : 70k km squared
Wyoming: 253k km squared.
No way Wyoming in that pic is more than 3 1/2 times bigger than Ireland
Isn’t wyoming home to a lot of US nuclear missile silos?
These compatisions are fun. Ireland is pretty underpopulated too for its size (thank the Brits for that). The entire catalan speaking area is just 250km2 larger than the ROI and we’re about 14 million people vs the ROI’s about 5 million.
And then the Island of Java has less than double the size of Ireland and the catalan speaking areas… But an effing 160 million inhabitants. Could you imagine a ROI with 80 to 90 Milion Inhabitants??
Wyoming is quite arid and mountaineous compared to Ireland
Totally wrong
This map underrepresents the size of Wyoming, even. It is more than three times the area of Ireland. And a lot less green.
We should make all the counties square
They’re called fly-over states for a reason.
Iceland would be my go-to comparison here at the other end. Even less densely populated at 366,425 (2020) but relatively well known in the world and with an identity amongst the Scandinavian nations.
Looks hip
The problem is obvious, Wyoming’s borders are straight and neat while Ireland’s are all zig ziggy and jagged !
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This is why Wyoming isn’t real
Isn’t that the state with the highest percentage of the vote for Trump?
I got a lot of mileage out of this when I studied in Cork. My home county is three quarters the size of Connaught, with less population than the city of Wicklow. To me it was one of the most crowded places (taking the whole island) I’d been.
South Dakota to the east(?) is an interesting comparison too… given that we get called a tax haven whereas [South Dakota](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/04/pandora-papers-reveal-south-dakotas-role-as-367bn-tax-haven) [is an actual tax haven.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-american-tax-haven-why-the-super-rich-love-south-dakota-trust-laws)
>According to a 2020 state report, South Dakota’s burgeoning trust industry holds an estimated $367bn (£273bn) in assets, a sum approaching the annual economic output of the Republic of Ireland – up from $75.5bn in 2011. The phenomenal growth has been supercharged by the state’s aggressive drive to attract money by shielding trust owners’ assets from foreign governments, taxes and even former spouses.
Lads were are ye getting these size comparisons from ? This one was so egregious I had to look it up.
Ireland : 70k km squared
Wyoming: 253k km squared.
No way Wyoming in that pic is more than 3 1/2 times bigger than Ireland
Isn’t wyoming home to a lot of US nuclear missile silos?
These compatisions are fun. Ireland is pretty underpopulated too for its size (thank the Brits for that). The entire catalan speaking area is just 250km2 larger than the ROI and we’re about 14 million people vs the ROI’s about 5 million.
And then the Island of Java has less than double the size of Ireland and the catalan speaking areas… But an effing 160 million inhabitants. Could you imagine a ROI with 80 to 90 Milion Inhabitants??
Wyoming is quite arid and mountaineous compared to Ireland
Totally wrong
This map underrepresents the size of Wyoming, even. It is more than three times the area of Ireland. And a lot less green.
We should make all the counties square
They’re called fly-over states for a reason.
Iceland would be my go-to comparison here at the other end. Even less densely populated at 366,425 (2020) but relatively well known in the world and with an identity amongst the Scandinavian nations.
Looks hip
The problem is obvious, Wyoming’s borders are straight and neat while Ireland’s are all zig ziggy and jagged !