The strength and dexterity of the various industries and institutions in Boston is well known to us all. The Hub boasts an arsenal of progressive startups, a burgeoning tech sector, unparalleled higher-education and unwavering pride in all. Comparing cities to countries on the international stage might seem like apples and oranges, but some actually stack up quite nicely.

Take our fair city, for example. Knowing full well how valuable Boston’s economy is, it’s hard to truly comprehend such. Until we realize that the estimated 2014 Gross Domestic Product is equal to that of the entire country of Denmark, that is.

The folks over at The Wire, in tandem with the Martin Prosperity Institute, stacked the 2014 GDP projects of some of the U.S.’s most powerful metropolitan areas and found their worldwide counterparts.

They suppose Boston’s market value in 2014 to hover around the $361 billion mark, which is slightly larger in economic size than Denmark’s $315 billion and, notes The Wire, “produces slightly less than Colombia.”

Our southward rival New York City, the country’s largest and wealthiest municipality, is on pace to output  $1.4 trillion dollars worth of manufacturing – approximately the same as the entire nation of Australia which The Wire points out is the world’s 12th largest economy.

One statistic that piqued our interest was that Detroit’s “$220 billion in output, is projected to produce more than Ireland.” There’s so much news surrounding the socioeconomics of the Motor City that it’s easy to forget it’s still a major player in the manufacturing realm.

What’s more, assuming the projects are relatively accurate, each of these metro areas rank among the 50 largest economies in the entire world.

[Image via The Wire]