Question

Which regions of the world have high cocentration of population and why

Answer 1

HERE IT IS...

4 Most Densely Populated Areas of the World

There are four areas in the world where the average density of population is more than 100 persons per sq. km. These are:


1. East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan).

2. South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal).





3. North-West Europe (UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, Denmark, Spain, Portugal and Italy).

4. Eastern North America (North-East United States and South-East Canada).

All these areas of dense population lie in the northern hemisphere and are so placed that more than 75 per cent of the world’s population is now concentrated between the Tropic of Cancer and 70° north.





Of these, China and the subcontinent of India have been having large populations from the earliest times. Europe is less ancient, and the United States has become densely populated only during the last two hundred years.

Except in Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, the population of East and South Asian countries is living mainly in rural areas.

The people are directly or indirectly engaged in agriculture. They are largely dependent on primary activities (agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and mining) which reflect the food-producing potential of the land.

In these countries also, the areas having fertile alluvial soils, gentle slopes and available water (from surface and underground or rainfall) have the highest densities of population.