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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