States starting with A are huge, states starting with W are tiny. (If there were states starting with Z they'd be even smaller)
That's what I originally thought, but if you compare Maine and Alaska, the sizes aren't much different to my eye
Maybe he took all the current areas of the states. Then reassigned them alphabetically. Rather than creating new areas.
Hawaii's landmass is spread out across islands. If you smash them all together the size looks like it'd be comparable to Illinois. Colorado, on the other hand, looks a bit large.
Yeah, Hawaii is huge and Idaho is way smaller than it actually is, despite it being right behind Hawaii, alphabetically.
I enjoy this a lot. My favourite is either Luigiana/Waluigiana or the rename for Hawaii