Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts, 15th Edition
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PublisherWiley
ISBN / ASIN1118093607
ISBN-139781118093603
Sales Rank343,579
CategoryScience
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Points to Ponder from De Blij Regions 15th Edition
- Some western European countries accepted relatively large numbers of religious Muslim immigrants at a time when secularization among native populations reached a peak.
- NATO s main purpose is to provide security to its member-states in Europe plus the United States and Canada, yet its most important military operation is in Afghanistan.
- In northern European countries, the south tends to be more developed than the north, whereas in southern European countries the north tends to be more developed than the south.
- There are only two states in the world that share the same country code for international telephone traffic: the United States and Canada.
- Whereas more than 70 percent of Canada s population lives within 200 kilometers (125 miles) of the northern U.S. border, only 12 percent of the Mexican population lives that close to the Southern U.S. border.
- Brazil is well on its way to displacing the United States as the world s biggest food exporter; it aims to do so by 2015.
- Of the ten fastest-growing economies of the world during the first decade of this century, six were located in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- The popular uprisings across the Arab World in 2011 involved disproportionate numbers of young people and were in no small part facilitated through the use of the internet and cell-phone communication.
- India s IT sector accounts for one-quarter of all exports, but employs only 2 percent of the national workforce.
- If India goes ahead with plans to reserve 33 percent of its Parliament seats for women, it will have almost twice as much female representation as the U.S. Congress.
- In the two decades between 1990 and 2010, China s economy vaulted from tenth place in the world to second.
- The area surrounding China s Pearl River Estuary has a manufacturing workforce larger than that of the entire United States.
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