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

Collection:: Economics Books

The Contrast between Asia and Australia 317 TRANSPORTATION Transportation in Asia compared with that of Australia and the United States. The following figures illustrate the degree to which transportation has been developed in certain countries. COUNTRY China . India . Turkey Javan . Australia . New Zealana [Tnited States Fora RaiLway MILEAGE IN 1998 6,836 36,616 3,842 7.234 \\y MILES OF RAILROAD PER 10,000 [NHABITANTS MILES OF RAILROAD PER 1000 SOUARE MILES v 20 . Motor VEHI- “LES PER 1000 [INHABITANTS iN 1928 0 07 0.41 1.10 1.96 82.00 107.00 200.00 18. How do the Asiatic countries compare with the others in (a) miles of rail- road in proportion to population; (b) miles of railroad in proportion to area; (c) number of motor vehicles compared with the number of people Which of the Asiatic countries here given appears to you to have the best system of transportation? Why? How do its transportation fa- cilities compare with those of each of the three non-Asiatic countries in the table? Why does it stand higher than the other Asiatic countries? The distribution of railroads in Asia. The following conditions have played an important part in determining the location and extent of the railways of Asia: (a) the height and extent of the mountains and plateaus; (b) climatic conditions, including low temperature, lack of rain, summer floods, and dense vegetation; (c) density of the population; (d) poverty; (e) degree of progressiveness; (f) kind of rcovernment ; (¢g) famines, which have led a great European country to build many miles of railway in one of its chief possessions in order to transport food from regions of abundance to those where food is scarce; (h) valuable products wanted by Europeans. 20. Explain how each of these conditions influences railroad building. 21. On an outline map of Asia write in each country a series of letters to in- dicate which of the conditions given above have had an important effect. Underline the letters indicating conditions that have stimulated rail- road building.

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