World of Regions

REGIONS
Large size territories (such as counties,
provinces, and countries, or large
sections of countries such as the
Midwest USA) that encompasses many
places, all or most of which share a set
of attributes of places that make up a
different region.
 A World of Regions
 Regions are dynamic, changing :
1. Two way process of people's
activities changing their environment
and people being affected by their
environment.
2. Created by people responding to the
opportunities and constraints
presented by their environment.
REGIONALIZATION
Means:
1.The geographer's classification of
individual places or areal units.
2.The geographers equivalent of
scientific classification.
Global Divides: The North and the
South
Four Worlds Model
 After the Second World War, the world split into two major geopolitical blocs and
spheres of influence with conflicting political views about government and the right
society.

FIRST WORLD
 Refers to the so called developed, capitalist,
industrial countries roughly, a bloc of countries aligns
with the united states after world war II, with more or
less common political and economic interests: North
America, Western Europe, Japan, and Australia.
SECOND WORLD
 Refers to the former communist socialist,
industrial states (formerly the eastern bloc,
the territory and sphere of influence of the
union of soviet socialist republic) today:
Russia, Eastern Europe (e.g. Poland) and
same of the Turk states (eg. Kazakhstan) as
well as china.
THIRD WORLD
 Despite ever evolving definitions, the concept of 3 rd
world serves to identify countries that suffer from high
infant mortality, low economic development, high
levels of poverty. Low utilization of natural resources,
and heavy dependence on industrialized nations.

 These are the developing and technologically less

advanced nations of Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin
America.
 The 3rd world nations tend to have economies
dependent on the developed countries and are generally
characterized as poor with unstable governments and
having high rates of population growth, illiteracy and
disease.

 A key factor is the lack of a middle class – with

impoverished millions in vast lower economic class and a
very small elite upper class controlling the country’s
wealth and resources.

 Most third world nations also have very large foreign

debts.
What do we mean by Global
Divides?
The global digital divide describes global
disparities primarily between developed and
developing countries, in regards to access to
computing and information resources such as
the internet and the opportunities derived from
such access.
Why Did the North and South Divide?
 The two sides of the debate over slavery were
divided between the two main sections of the
united states; the north and south.
 Many northerners viewed slavery as evil and wrong
and some were involved in the abolitionist
movement
 The north did not obey fugitive slave laws because
they said they were cruel and inhumane.
THE GLOBAL SOUTH
 The Global South holds all of the countries south of the
equator in the Southern hemisphere. It is called the
“Developing World” which includes some countries of
Africa and Latin America and some developing countries
in Asia.
 The Global South includes nearly 157 of a total of 184
recognized states in the world and many have limited
resources. It is also called the Third World which is a
phrase used to describe the developing countries.
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