A geographer notes that people crowd into a tiny part of the earth. What share of world population lives on about 10 per cent of the land?
AAbout 90 per cent
BAbout 50 per cent
CAbout 10 per cent
DAbout 30 per cent
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. About 90 per cent
1. Population is unevenly distributed.
2. About 90 per cent of people live on 10 per cent of the land.
3. Asia has many empty places and a few crowded ones.
_Source: NCERT Class 12 Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 2, The World Population._
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