Category: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

URBANISATION IN NIGERIA

Urbanisation is the process by which people move to a place and settle in large numbers to engage in essentially non-primary economic activities. It is a process by which a settlement is transformed from...

POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS

1) Size In studying the population in any country, the first consideration is to determine the size of the population or the total number of people in the country. This is usually done by...

POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Population is important both as a factor and as a measure of development in a country. The term, population, is used to embrace the sum total of the human resources available in a given...

POPULATION SIZE AND DENSITY OF AFRICA

The availability of reliable population data is one of the major problems of development planning in Africa. Most African countries at independence had not taken a complete census of their population and, therefore, had...

FUNCTIONS OF SETTLEMENTS

All settlements perform certain useful functions to justify their continued existence. Most of them have several functions. A village may just serve the community as a meeting place for people and goods and have...

LOCATION OF SETTLEMENTS

A close look at the towns and cities shown in your atlas will reveal that they have certain advantages of site and position which have enabled them to grow. The site of a town...

RURAL VERSUS URBAN SETTLEMENTS

Rural and urban settlements may be distinguished from one another on the basis of populations size and function. Rural settlements are relatively small settlements whose populations are no more than a few hundreds or...

WORLD POPULATION DISTRIBUTION

Apart from their very rapid rate of increase, human beings are also very unevenly distributed, which leads to the problem of overpopulation in some areas. Less than 20 percent of the world’s surface is...

WORLD SHIPPING ROUTES

The following are some of the principal ocean trade routes. 1) The North Atlantic Route: This is the busiest and the most important route, that links two of the most populous and heavily industrialized...

DAIRY FARMING

Dairy farming is the tending of animals for the primary purpose of producing milk for sale. This milk comes mainly from cows; but in some parts of the world milk is obtained also from...

URBANIZATION AND ITS PROBLEMS

The growth of towns in human numbers leads directly to the area expansion of the town limits. The surrounding agricultural land is gradually taken over by urban structures and factory sites. The wealthier people...

THE SAVANNA REGIONS

Distribution The Savanna or Sudan Climate is a transitional type of climate found between the equatorial forests and the trade wind hot deserts. It is confined within the tropics and it is best developed...

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