GCSE Geography - Population - Global Population Distribution
The term "population density" is used to talk about where people live in the world. It's figured out by dividing the total number of people in a place by how big that place is. We then show this number for every square kilometre. Some places, like the Indian sub-continent or Western Europe, have lots of good things that make people want to live there. We call these places "densely populated." Other places, like the Polar regions and the Amazonian region, have very few people and are called "sparsely populated." Global distribution of population: There are different reasons why some places have more people, and they can be split into two groups: physical reasons and human reasons. Physical reasons: Accessibility: People settled near coasts because they traveled by boat. Cities like Sydney, New York, and Cape Town were established on the coast because it was easier to reach them. But, places like the Australian desert or the Brazilian rainforest were ha...
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