What is the relationship between cities and rural areas?

Question 1

What do rural areas have compared to cities?

Answer 1

1. Lower population size and density
2. Fewer functions
3. Less built-up areas

Question 2

How are cities and rural areas in many countries connected by?

Answer 2

Movements of people, goods and services.

Question 3

Rural-urban migration

Who are ‘migrants’?

Answer 3

People who have originally come from another location to settle down in a country.

Question 5

What is rural-urban migration?

Answer 5

People who move from rural areas to urban areas such as towns and cities.

Question 6

What are the push factors or reasons that make migrants want to leave their place of origin?

Answer 6

to have a brighter future
to further one’s studies in a university

Question 7

What are the pull factors / reasons that attract migrants towards a destination, such as a city?

Answer 7

availability of many different and well-paying jobs
better pay so that the migrant can support his family better

Question 8

Provision of goods and services

What can cities rely on rural areas for?

Answer 8

food supply since cities have limited space for agricultural activities.

Rural farmers can rear animals and grow crops for their own needs or sel

Question 9

Define ‘amenities’.

Answer 9

Facilities which enable people to live comfortably.

Question 11

How can cities benefit rural inhabitants?

Answer 11

1. The city dwellers can buy the rural inhabitants’ goods / food products. When this happens, there is an exchange of food products for money, which becomes the rural inhabitants’ income.
2. Rural inhabitants can also benefit from amenities available in cities.

Question 12

Give examples of how rural inhabitants can benefit from the amenities in cities?

Answer 12

1. Rural inhabitants can travel to a hospital in the city for expert medical help and advanced treatment which might not be available in where they live.
2. They can also buy certain goods that are only available from malls in the city.