# Economically-wise, the GDP of your city is bigger than what countries? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 20, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449 "2015-03-20T02:36:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/1 "2015-03-20T02:36:49Z")
List of cities by GDP: [List of cities by GDP - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP) Use the first column if you can. If not, use whichever column gives you the larger figure. List of countries by GDP: > **[List of countries by GDP (nominal)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29)** > > Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from financial and statistical institutions, which are calculated at market or government official exchange rates. Nominal GDP does not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results can vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country's currenc... Use the United Nations column. I’m in San Antonio, TX ($96 billion GDP), which makes us larger than: Ecuador, Luxembourg, and Cuba. If we were our own country, we’d rank #62 in the world (within the US, we are the 35th largest city by GDP). ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/2 "2015-03-20T02:46:33Z")
San Diego, CA, around $180 billion, right between Kuwait and Ukraine, around 55th in the world. And we’ve got nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, too! (Okay, they’re just based here. Our economy is good, but not big enough to support an actual modern carrier battle fleet. So much for my plan to conquer Oregon and Washington, with the ultimate goal of annexing southern Alaska.) ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/3 "2015-03-20T02:51:26Z")
Atlanta, $295B, right next to singapore and edging out Israel. I’m amused we’re equivalent to basically another city on the other side of the globe. And I never though of Israel as an economic powerhouse, but it’s 38th in the world. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/4 "2015-03-20T02:58:55Z")
I used to live in Knoxville, TN ($36 billion), so suck it, Syria! 😛 😉 We’re # 89! We’re # 89! Looking at another source, I notice that the city of San Antonio has grown by $21 billion since 2008, the equivalent of adding Iceland _and_ the Bahamas to our GDP in the past 7 years. The US economy has grown $3 trillion in the same period, the equivalent of adding the economies of the UK _and_ Austria. In 7 years. IOW, what it took them 800 years to do… we did in 7. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/5 "2015-03-20T03:49:13Z")
Portland wasn’t on the list, but the GDP of the whole state of Maine is $48.1 billion, which puts us just above Slovenia. Edit: [http://bangordailynews.com/2012/11/30/business/ways-to-look-at-portland-areas-share-of-maine-gdp/](http://bangordailynews.com/2012/11/30/business/ways-to-look-at-portland-areas-share-of-maine-gdp/) Apparently the Greater Portland area accounts for more than half of the state’s GDP. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/6 "2015-03-20T03:56:14Z")
Osaka (/Kobe) 654 billion. Suck it Argentina. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/7 "2015-03-20T04:09:46Z")
Los Angeles: $765B. Coming in as the 19th-largest country, between Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Mmm…Turkey. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/8 "2015-03-20T08:12:39Z")
My home town, London, is either just ahead or behind of the country I’m in now, Saudi, depending on which criteria you look at. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/9 "2015-03-20T11:50:05Z")
Glasgow’s slightly ahead of Edinburgh (21.3 vs 20.5) but we both fall between Zambia (# 107) and Afghanistan (# 108) ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/10 "2015-03-20T11:58:50Z")
Washington DC – we beat Austria! Suck it, Austrians, and go throw another shrimp on the barbie. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/11 "2015-03-20T12:01:50Z")
I think I’m missing something…the list of cities’ column headers indicate it’s in billions (BN) and the list of countries column headers says millions of US $. Is everyone else just mentally adding zeroes to the list of countries? (I’m seriously under-caffeinated…and have mild dyscalculia.) ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/12 "2015-03-20T12:03:41Z")
BTW, never mind Boston…[Harvard’s endowment is greater than half the world’s economies](http://www.boston.com/business/news/2014/09/25/harvard-endowment-bigger-than-half-the-world-economies/UAOY9V4lg6fcjArrSyCgWJ/story.html). Suck it, half the world! ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/13 "2015-03-20T12:45:26Z")
Melbourne, $253 Billion (according to column 1) is just ahead of Greece, $241 Billion, 43rd in the world. Which is amusing, because it’s one of the pieces of Received Melbourne Wisdom (probably no longer true) that we’re the number 2 Greek city in the world, after Athens. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/14 "2015-03-20T14:00:42Z")
Cape Town, at $103 Billion, is just behind Morocco and well ahead of Ecuador, Oman & Cuba …and San Antonio. We’d pip them for that #62 spot. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/15 "2015-03-20T14:15:28Z")
Dallas. 420 billion. That puts us slightly ahead of Thailand, the UAE and slightly lower than Austria and Taiwan. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economically-wise-the-gdp-of-your-city-is-bigger-than-what-countries/715449/16 "2015-03-20T14:16:20Z")
Detroit is right up there with Pakistan? Sounds about right. Only Pakistan is probably safer.