Human Geography

Urban Development

Urban Development Urban growth is recently occurring rapidly. The first urban settlement that reached a population of around one million was in the city of London in 1810 A.D. In 1800, only 3% of the global population lived in cities.  Classification of Urban Settlements: Urban areas’ classification varies per country. Here are the common bases […]

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Tertiary Activities: Transport, Communication and Services

Transport, Communication and Services state that to aid in the creation, distribution, and consumption of commodities, modern civilization demands quick and efficient transportation infrastructure. The value of the product is significantly increased due to transportation at every level of this complicated system. People, raw materials, and manufactured commodities are physically transported from one area to

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Roads

Road Transportation Road transport, also known as road haulage or truck transport, is the transport of cargo by road. It can be described as any form of wheeled transport that transfers goods from one location to another. However, it has become synonymous with the long-distance transfer of goods using Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) on comparatively

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Nature and Scope

Nature and Scope for Human Geography and other significant aspects to consider Make a look of the marine and human parts of your environmental factors. Human Geography investigates physical climate, whereas human topography takes into account the link between the physical/regular, as well as the human universes, the spatial appropriations of human peculiarities and how

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Human Settlements

The study of human settlement is common to human geography as the form of settlement in any certain region shows the human relationship with the environment. The human settlements are differentiated in terms of urban and rural, nature of activities, functions, structure, population size, etc. There is no consistency in the settlements’ differentiation. Human Settlement:

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