HUMAN GEOGRAPHY


Bari Naples SARDINIA


People per Km More than 500 200–500 100–200 50–200


Fewer than 50 Palermo SICILY 4


Contrasting population densities in the Mezzogiorno. (a) Use the map to contrast general population densities of interior areas with those of coastal areas.


(b) Account for some of those contrasts.


Sorrento Metapontino The


Mt Vesuvius Pompei


Taranto Brindisi


A village in the interior of the Italian Mezzogiorno. (a) Why do areas such as this experience declining population densities?


(b) How do such declining densities affect population distribution in southern Italy?


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