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How the availability of water and land forms influence the distribution of population in the world? Explain with examples. |
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Answer» There are many factors influencing the distribution of population availability of water and landforms are of them. (i) Availability of Water: An important factor for life, people, on all over the w orld prefer to live in areas where freshwater is available easily. It is used for drinking, bathing and cooking and also used for cattle, crop, industries and navigation. River valleys are densely populated areas of the world, reason being the easy availability of water. (ii) Land forms: It is one of the top priorities as people prefer living on flat flat plains and gentle slopes, such areas are favorable for the production of crops and to build roads and industries. The mountainous and hilly areas hinder the development of transport network and do not favour agricultural and industrial development. Hence such areas tend to be less populated. Ganga plains are densely populated whereas Himalayas are scarcely populated. |
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