Unit 1 - China - Internal Distribution

Question 1

Where is China located?

Answer 1

• East Asia

- by Pacific Ocean

Question 2

How is the population distributed on the land across China?

Answer 2

• 50% of the population live on less than 10% of the land

- on the other half, less than 5% of the population live

Question 3

Why does China relate to internal distribution?

Answer 3

• has experienced the world’s largest internal population movement

Question 4

What are the physical factors causing China’s internal distribution?

Answer 4

• east & south coast → consists of fertile soils (agriculture)
• south → hilly and mountainous terrain
• west & north → sunken basins, rolling plateaus and towering massifs → contains part of the highest land on earth, the Tibetan Plateau → has much lower agricultural potential

Question 5

What are the human factors causing China’s internal distribution?

Answer 5

• traditionally, population centred on the chinese central plan → oriented itself toward its own enormous inland market whose centre lay in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River

Question 6

What are the economic factors causing China’s internal distribution?

Answer 6

• economic development been more rapid in coastal provinces due to the open-door policy
• wealthiest regions along southeast coast (Lower Yangtze, Pearl River Delta, Bohai Gulf)

Question 7

What is population distribution?

Answer 7

• the pattern of where people live.

Question 8

What is internal migration?

Answer 8

• human migration within one geopolitical entity (country)