Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part four. The field of consumption

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE CONTRAST BETWEEN ASIA AND AUSTRALIA AN Exercise IN Business GEOGRAPHY Asia and Australia present a notable contrast. Asia is the oldest of the continents so far as human history is concerned ; Australia is the youngest. Asia is five times as large as Australia, and has more than a hundred times as many people as Australia and New Zealand com- bined. Asia contains vast supplies of coal, iron, and probably other mineral wealth, and its agricultural possibilities are almost unlimited. Australia has little coal and iron; its other mineral wealth is probably much less than that of Asia, although more developed; and agricul- ture is not possible on any such scale as in Asia. Nevertheless the people of Asia are far less prosperous than those of Australia and New Zealand. This is due partly to the density of the population in Asia, partly to historical causes, and partly to lack of initiative among most of the people of Asia in contrast with great energy and initiative among the Australians. The contrast illustrates the fact that in commerce and industry the most important of all factors is the character of the people. PRODUCTION What Asia and Australia produce. Table V, on pages 812 and 313, lists the fifty primary products most important in the world as a whole. It shows what percentage of each is produced in Asia and in Australia, as well as the part of Asia where production is most active. I. Map exercise. On an outline map of Asia draw a map of Australia, using the same scale. to show how the two continents compare ip size. ) Explain why the figures for Asia in Table V are generally much larger than for Australia. How is this possible when the average wealth per in- habitant is estimated to be ten or twelve times as great in Australia as in Asia d 1 From Table V select the seven products of which Asia produces the largest percentage of the world’s total. Then select the seven in which Australia and New Zealand rank highest. Draw a diagram to illustrate your selection. Make a list of products produced in Asia to the extent of at least twenty per cent of the world’s total, but not produced in Australia to any 21]

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