Anton From Perm

It is always easier to compare one thing with another, than to use numbers that no one can start something with. A map with US states renamed as if they were countries with similar GDP is available on StrangeMaps.

In the table below, the Russian GDP is broken down into the twenty biggest regions in terms of GRP (all together, they account for over 70% of the total Russian GRP), and their GRP is compared to other countries’ GDP.

		Region	GRP (mln USD)	Comparable country
1.		Moscow	343,334	Denmark
2.		Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	73,440	Croatia
3.		Moscow Oblast	68,108	Croatia
4.		St. Petersburg	55,454	Luxenburg
5.		Sverdlovsk Oblast	37,503	Guatemala
6.		Republic of Tatarstan	37,420	Guatemala
7.		Krasnodar Krai	33,610	Latvia
8.		Republic of Bashkorstan	32,273	Uruguay
9.		Krasnoyarsk Krai	30,782	Kenya
10.		Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug	29,221	Costa Rica
11.		Samara Oblast	28,401	Lebanon
12.		Chelyabinsk Oblast	26,959	Burma, Yemen
13.		Perm Krai	24,781	Cyprus
14.		Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	23,848	Estonia
15.		Rostov Oblast	23,680	Estonia
16.		Kemerovo Oblast	23,663	Estonia
17.		Orenburg Oblast	19,068	Bosnia
18.		Irkutsk Oblast	18,824	Bosnia
19.		Novosibirsk Oblast	17,463	Iceland
20.		Volgograd Oblast	16,649	Paraguay

Please note that the figures are estimates from the Ministry of Regional Development, since the Federal State Statistics Service will publish the official figures only in May 2010… (BTW, today they finally learned to publish data in Excel files instead of HTML tables….)

EDIT: Khanty-Mansi & Yamalo Nenets Autonomnous Okrugs are not counted towards Tyumen’s GRP, but separately.

EDIT2: Tyumen’s GRP (without the autonomnous okrugs) dropped sharply in 2008 according to the estimates