This document discusses key issues in population geography including location and distribution of populations, population growth and change, migration patterns within and between countries, and population policies. It provides examples of population densities in Egypt and major population concentrations in different regions of the world, and how technology can increase a region's carrying capacity.

1. Chapter 4 Fundamentals of Population: Location, Distribution, and Density

2. Key Issues in Population Geography Population distribution

3. Key Issues in Population Geography Population growth and change

4. Key Issues in Population Geography Migration

5. The Shifting Center of the United States Population, 1790 - 1990

6. U.S. Interregional Migration Annual Average in 1000s (1990s)

7. Intra-regional migration in Boston 1970-1998

8. Refugees and forced migration Rwandan Refugees Trail of Tears

9. Key Issues in Population Geography Population policies China’s One Child Policy

10. Arithmetic vs. Physiologic Population Density (the number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land) Egypt has an arithmetic density of 182/sq. mi. Egypt’s physiologic density is 9064/sq mi.

11. Major Population Concentrations South Asian and East Asian distributions reflect agricultural populations

12. Major Population Concentrations European distributions reflect the orientation of coal fields

13. Major Population Concentrations North American distributions reflect the agglomeration surrounding industrial areas

14. Other Major Population Concentrations Java, Mekong Delta

15. Other Major Population Concentrations Nigeria Nile River and Delta

16. Other Major Population Concentrations South America Periphery

17. Other Major Population Concentrations Australia Periphery

18. Technology and carrying capacity Improvements in technology can increase the carrying capacity of a region.