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UPSC Geography 18- World Geography (Settlements type, Tribes, Economy, Transport & Countries Specifics)

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UPSC Geography 18- World Geography (Settlements type, Tribes, Economy, Transport & Countries Specifics)


 World Facts

  • World density 36 person per square kilometre
  • Settlement type - Nuclear settlement, Dispersed settlement, Fragmented settlement, Circular, Star & Delta settlement


Tribes

  • Flemish- Belgium 
  • Mestizos -South America Americans 
  • Tartar and Yakutsk-Russia


Job Types
  • Agriculture- Red coloured job
  • Factory labour- Blue Collar 
  • Clerk-Pink collar 
  • Administration White Collar 
  • Research Gold collar (upper White)

Minerals
  • Magnetite Psilomelane, Pyrolusite 
  • Tin - Cassiterite
  • Iron (blast furnace) Ukraine &
  • Iron Ore- Birmingham (UK)
  • Silver-Mexico 
  • Copper-Chile 
  • Firozabad- glass 
  • Leeds-woolen 
  • New Orleans- Coal 
  • Northhampshire - Leather

Transport
  • Road length (not Density)- USA and India 
  • Railways length- USA 
  • Inland water transport -North Europe 
  • Canal transport- China 
  • Kiel Canal- North sea and Baltic Sea 
  • Saint-so-marie canal- superior with Heron Lake
  • New shipping Canal- North sea to Rotterdam

Country Specifics
  • Hindenburg line Poland and Germany 
  • maginot line France and Germany 
  • 49th parallel Canada and US 
  • Namibia- Southwest Africa 
  • Oslo -Christiania Norway 
  • Suriname- Dutch Guiana 
  • Taiwan -Formosa 
  • Tanzania -Zanzibar  
  • UAE- Trucial Oman
  • Zambia- North Road Asia

Theories
  • Determinism theory- decided by environment 
  • Environmental Determinism- Climate control mind set 
  • Possibilism- utilisation of resourses
  • Theory of Demographic Transition- - Warren Thompson- 3 stages (first stage -high birth rate and high death rate, second stage- high birth rate and death rate, Third stage low birth rate low death rate


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