Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ecumene, Crop Rotation, Demographic Transition
28 Jan 2019
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News: 26 individuals are as wealth as half of all humanity combined: oxfam report: distributions & patterns. Human geography people population geography. The study of the spatial component of demography. World 7. 6 b + 226,000 daily. Canada 37 m + 1,000 daily (canada x 39= china/ tokyo 38 m) 20th century "the century of population explosion" Majority of population congregate at lowland areas. Continental margins have the largest concentration of people. E. asia 25%; s. asia 21%; europe 12%; ne u. s. a. <1; se canada. Over 50% of world population are urbanites. Almost 90% of people live north of the equator btw tropic of cancer(23"n) & 55"n (london is. A large proportion occupy a small land surface (90% on less than 20& of the land) Canada"s population distribution 1/3 or 12. 5 m live in greater to, montreal, vancouver. 87% with in 160km of us border. 1. 3 live in greater toronto, mtl, van. Permanently inhabited uninhabited or sparsely inhabited: measures of population.
