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Summary AQA A-level Geography - CUE
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, Mumbai
• Located on west coast on India
• West coast provides lots of transport links
• economic opportunites increase significantly due to rural to urban migration
• Key characteristis of econoy: storng presence in
• Reserve bank of india and key stock exchange
• Bollywood films main economic driver
• Mumbai contributes to 33% of the income to India
• 3 million commute to mumbai from surrounding areas
• Nationally mumbai contributes to 33% of all income tax
• Responsible for 70% of indias maritime trade
• $310 billion to the economy
Strengths
• Thriving theatre and arts indutry
• bank of india
• Multi national insitautions and stock exchanges - job opportunitues
Wekanesses:
• population issues
• Leads to congention, resource trains and housing issues
• Infrastructure issues
Opportunities:
• tourism - 6 million tourists a year
• Provides job opportuniteis for residents in tourist indutry
• Infrastructure developmnet, invesnting in transport system to increase
quality of life
Threats
• suseptable to natural disasters
• Terrorist attacks - e.g. 2008 attacks
,Guangzhou - China
• Captial and largest city of the
• PopuLation - 18.7 million people
• One of the most population desne cities in China
• Manufacting accounts for 15.3% of the GDP
• Tertiary secor represnts 30% of its GDP
• Minumum wage - 2.50 pound an hour
• Global trading partners with Japan,europe and America
• Research centre account for 3.13% of GDp
• Leading in self driving utomobiles
Strengths:
• economic development
• Ranked 3rd of all cities in china in 217 due to rapid GDP growth
• Investing in centre for technolgical development
• Well developed transportation networks
Threats and wekanesses:
• engineering generated photo chemical fog
• air polltuon due to industrial output
• Damage to air quality meant people couldnt see when driving - main bus route shut
down for more than a month
• Cant work from home to to engineering heav city
Opportunities:
• trade and manufacting
• Education research
• Toursim hospitality - job opportunities
, Sao Paulo - Brasil
• economy shifted towards tertiary sector
• large inequality - 1/3 of population living in slums
• more cultural development in 21st century
• accounts for 30% of Brazil’s GDP
• Brazil’s most densely populated city
strengths:
• major economic hub
• big financail industry
• cultrually diverse?
Weakenss:
• high inequality
• environmental challenges
opportunities:
• busienss and financial sector grwoth
• sustainable infrastructure devrlopmnt
threats:
• drought - water secutriy threatened by climate change
• economic stability
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