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It doesn't stop at the German border, though. And if you look at this map, the distinction between S and N is much less clear: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/w
by lampenrad 9y ago
It doesn't stop at the German border, though. And if you look at this map, the distinction between S and N is much less clear: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_domestic_product_(GDP)_per_inhabitant,_in_purchasing_power_standard_(PPS),_by_NUTS_2_regions,_2009_(%25_of_the_EU-27_average,_EU-27%3D100).png https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_domestic_pro...
Southern Germany, Western Austria, Northern Italy, Switzerland and parts of France: There's a big wealth cluster in the larger region around the Alps. Why? I don't know, but as a South German myself, I'm not too convinced by the claims of the article.
- treigerm 9y agoI remember learning about the Blue Banana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana) in high school. You can see it pretty clearly on your map.
- mpweiher 9y agoAnd it used to be the other way around, with Bavaria being very poor. Decades of Länderfinanzausgleich fixed that. Now the industries of Northrine-Westfalia have been in decline for some time, so that's been dragging everything down. And Berlin lost a lot of its aid and most of the East is also somewhat northern.