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...
Category: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
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...
THE PATTERN OF WORLD POPULATION DISTRIBUTION
1) The very sparsely populated parts of the world These include the cold polar lands of the Arctic and Antarctic, the Canadian and Eurasian tundra, Greenland and the high mountains of the Himalayas, the...
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 COOL TEMPERATE GRASSLANDS (STEPPE AND PRAIRIE)
Distribution Bordering the deserts, away from the Mediterranean regions and in the interiors of continents, are the temperate grasslands. Though, they lie in the Westerly wind belt, they are so remote from maritime influence...
THE COOL TEMPERATE REGIONS (EASTERN MARGINS)
Laurentian Type Distribution The Cool Temperate Eastern Margin (Laurentian) Climate is an intermediate type of climate between the British and the Siberian type of climate. It has features of both the maritime and the...
THE COOL TEMPERATE REGIONS (WESTERN MARGINS)
British Type Distribution The cool temperate western margins are under the permanent influence of the Westerlies all round the year. They are also regions of much cyclonic activity, typical of Britain, and are thus...
THE WARM TEMPERATE REGIONS (EASTERN MARGINS)
China type Distribution This type of climate is found on the eastern margins of continents in warm temperate latitudes, just outside the tropics (Fig. 22.1). It has comparatively more rainfall than the Mediterranean climate...
THE WARM TEMPERATE REGIONS (WESTERN MARGINS)
Mediterranean Type Distribution The Warm Temperate Western Margin Climate is found in relatively few areas in the world. It is entirely confined to the western portion of continental masses, between 30° and 45° north...
THE COLD TEMPERATE FOREST REGIONS (SIBERIAN TYPE)
Distribution The Cold Temperate Continental (Siberian) Climate is experienced only in the northern hemisphere, where the continents within the high latitudes have a broad east-west spread (Fig. 26.1). On its poleward side, it merges...
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...
THE TROPICAL DESERT AND TEMPERATE DESERT
Distribution Deserts are regions of scanty rainfall which may be hot like the hot deserts of the Saharan type or temperate as the mid-latitude deserts like the Gobi. The aridity of the hot deserts...