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energy resources'
rne world's largest gnergy consumer is also endowed with substantial

Wat Coast districts respond to the V/6t's

gro\ving markets. Particular physical envircnmens there have also boosted foodprocessir'g industria (citrus products in
Southem Califomia and wines in the vicinity of San Francisco and elsewhere)'
Many of the aircraft you may have trav-

cisco Bay Area is also ,ome to "Silicon

Valley," the rsearch and manufacturing
leader in the computer industry-a leading hearth of postindu$rial America and

is "highrech"

large metropolises, with their substantial

-industrial complexes, are but outliers of

aeroeace industry, led by Boeing, is of

world-class proportions. The San Fran-

its kind.

built in the

Seattle area: its

RUSSIAN.UKRATNTAN
MANUFACTURING
REGTONS

society. Nevertheless, these

the American Manufacturing Belt, still by

far the mo$'productive world region of

eled on are

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In the former Soviet Union, manufacturins districts (as one would expect in so
vait a oolitical realm) are widely

dis-

watDersed. Our map displays only the

,rn*ott districs (Fig. 38-4)' It was

Soviet