About the Size of Those Canadian Provinces (Required, Unlike the Others)

Canada is rich, and comparable to the U.S. in real GDP per capita. But it's population is a ninth of ours, so those provinces that are big on a map are not that comparable to our states.

First off, the entirety of Canada has an economy about the size of Texas (our # 2 state) with West Virginia thrown in to make it even.

This site gives the real GDP of Canadian provinces in their dollars. The exchange rate currently is about 4 of our dollars to 5 of theirs, so it makes sense to deflate their numbers by 20%. Here's what we get in U.S. dollars:

• Ontario, about $710B/yr., or between the size of Georgia and Ohio.
• Quebec, about $370B/yr., or between the size of Missouri and Wisconsin
  
• Alberta, about $280B/yr.,, or between the size of South Carolina and Connecticut
  
• British Columbia, about $250B/yr, or between the size or Alabama and Louisiana

Those are the big 4, and I didn't worry about the rest. For comparison, Utah's GDP is about $220B/yr.