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Chapter 4
Fundamentals of Population:
Location, Distribution, and Density
Key Issues in Population Geography
• Population distribution
Key Issues in Population Geography
• Population growth and change
Key Issues in Population Geography
• Migration
The Shifting Center of the United States Population, 1790 - 1990
U.S. Interregional MigrationAnnual Average in 1000s (1990s)
Intra-regional
migration in Boston
1970-1998
Refugees and forced migration
Rwandan Refugees
Trail of Tears
Key Issues in Population Geography
• Population
policies
China’s One Child Policy
Arithmetic vs.
Physiologic Population Density(the number of people
per unit area of agriculturally productive
land)
• Egypt has an arithmetic density of 182/sq. mi.• Egypt’s physiologic density is 9064/sq mi.
Major Population Concentrations
South Asian and East Asian distributions reflect agricultural populations
Major Population
Concentrations
Europeandistributionsreflect the
orientation of coal fields
Major Population Concentrations• North
American distributions reflect the agglomeration surrounding industrial areas
Other Major Population
Concentrations
Java, Mekong Delta
Other Major Population Concentrations
• Nigeria
• Nile River and Delta
Other Major Population Concentrations
• South America Periphery
Other Major Population Concentrations
• Australia Periphery
Technology and carrying capacity
• Improvements in technology can increase the carrying capacity of a region.
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