why people live where they do

why people live where they do?

Natural factors:

1. Climate - pleasant temperatures, humidity, rainfall, 
2. Relief - the height and the shape of the land
3. Resources - basic needs of food and water, fertile areas to grow crops,

Human factors:

1. Economy - earn money, jobs
2. Political decisions - 

Urban and rural settlements:

1. Urbanization: People migrate for economic and political reasons.

Urbanization

1. 

   Global urbanization map showing the percentage of urbanization per country in 2015

   

   Guangzhou, a city of 12.7 million people, is one of the 8 adjacent metropolises located in the largest single agglomeration on earth, ringing the Pearl River Delta of China.

   

   Mumbai is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 23.9  million.

   Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change
2. More than half the population of South Africans has become urbanized. South Africa is one of the most urbanized 

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