Population Patterns

51 Pages·2014·4.47 MB·English

by  Susan M. Pojer

The Middle East Today:
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Middle East? OR Near East?
OR Southwest Asia? OR….?
Bodies of Water
Black Sea
Dardanelles Strait
Atlantic
Tigris
Ocean Euphrates
River
Jordan
River
River
Suez Canal
Strait of
Hormuz
Nile
Gulf of
River
Oman
Arabian
Sea
Gulf of Aden
Indian
Ocean
The Mighty Nile River:
“Longest River in the World”
Egypt: The “Gift of the Nile”
Nile Delta
Annual Nile Flooding
95% of the Egyptian
people live on 5% of the
land!
Aswan High Dam, Egypt
Hydroelectric
Power Plant
Suez Canal
Completed by the British in 1869
Population Patterns
Migrations, claims to ancestral homes, and
boundary disputes have influenced
population in the eastern Mediterranean.
• The people:
– About 7.1 million people in this region are Israelis
living in Israel.
Population Patterns
(cont.)
– The majority of people
• Density and distribution:
live along coastal plains
This area has some of
the highest population
densities in Southwest
Asia.
– This subregion is
predominantly urban—
more than 75% of the
people in Israel, Jordan,
and Lebanon live in cities.
– Just over 50% in Syria
and Palestine live in
cities.