Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 100669000X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-18753

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Die freiwilligen sozialen Fürsorge- u. Wohlfahrtseinrichtungen in Gewerbe, Handel u. Industrie im Deutschen Reiche

Place of publication:: Halle a.S.

Publisher:: Carl Marhold Verlagsbuchhandlung

Year of publication:: 1913

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 70, 441 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: IV. Ergebnisse und Schlußbemerkungen

Collection:: Economics Books

Indted States Deparimeni of Aagriculiure Fig. 127. Where railroads and steamships meet. The terminal of a grain-carrying railroad at Jersey Citv CHAPTER FOURTEEN RAILROADS Tae number of railroads varies greatly from country to country. For example, the United States has more than a third of all the railways in the world, while in northern Siberia an area as large as the whole United States contains not a single mile of railroad. Great Britain and Ireland have over three times as great a railway mileage as China; yet China has eight times as many people and is thirty times as large. Although New Jersey is only a twelfth as large as Wyoming, it has more miles of railroad. Such differences are accounted for by four main causes: (1) degree of progress in civilization; (2) density of population; (3) relief of the land ; and (4) natural resources. Let us see how each of these conditions does its work. Why progressive countries have many railroads. Most of the railroads are in highly progressive regions like the United States and western Europe. Japan, too, in proportion to its area, has far more railroads than any other country in Asia. On the other hand, back- ward countries like Siam, Persia, Abyssinia, and Paraguay have very few. There are many reasons for this difference. 175

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