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Chapter 3 Geography
Chapter 3 Geography
Chapter 3 Geography
Chapter 3:
Geography
Instructor: Đỗ Thảo Nhi
OVERVIEW
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● East Anglia
○ uniformly flat land
● The Potteries
○ factories of china
● Nottingham
○ legend of Robin Hood
NORTHERN ENGLAND
● Leading industrial sites
○ Large deposits of coal & iron ore
○ Manchester: cotton goods
○ Bradfords & Leeds: woollen goods
○ Sheffield: steel goods
○ Newcastle: shipbuilding
NORTHERN ENGLAND
● In the 20th century, the decline of heavy industry
in Europe hit Northern England hard
○ unemployment
○ “civic pride”
● Central plain
○ 80% of Scotland’s population
○ North Sea oil industry
● Highlands
○ mountains & deep valleys
○ numerous small islands off the west coast
○ tourism and production of whiskey
SCOTLAND
● Glasgow
○ heavy industry
○ worst housing conditions in Britain
○ artistic heritage (European City of Culture 1990)
● Edinburgh
○ capital of Scotland
○ associated with scholarship, law, and
administration
○ “The Athens of the north”
WALES
● Heavily populated area
○ coal-mining (no longer now)
○ industrial villages
● Giant’s Causeway
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