Tech giant Apple is worth a lot of cash.

In addition to being the largest publicly traded company on the U.S. stock market, its 2011 sales were worth $128 billion — more than 160 different nations' gross domestic products.

This Best Computer Science Degrees infographic compares Apple's massive reach to things around it in the world.

For example, you could lay all of the 56.4 million iPads that are projected to sell in 2012 back and forth between the east and west coast and still have plenty left over. Meanwhile, nearly as many iOS devices were sold in the U.S. in 2008 as cars — 200 million compared with 213 million.

Take a look at the inforgraphic and let us know if you think Apple will continue to expand.

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