Center of population
The population center is the point to which all residents of an area have the shortest route on average. It only takes into account the distance, but ignores the accessibility (location, mountains , etc.). The center of the population is thus an subsequently imposed quantity. Therefore it is seldom the same as the capital of an area, often not even in an inhabited area.
Center of population of the USA
The center of the population shifted continuously and straight to the west due to the continued west migration from Baltimore ( Maryland ) on the east coast (1790) and reached southeast Indiana in 1900 . In the 20th century, the center of gravity moved in a south-westerly direction and crossed the Mississippi in 1980.
List of population centers
The center of the population in Germany |
- Australia : New South Wales
- Germany : Spangenberg
- Finland : Hauho
- France : Bourges (including Corsica )
- Italy : Monteleone d'Orvieto (including Sardinia )
- Japan : Gifu Prefecture
- Canada : Richmond Hill (1986)
- Netherlands : Austerlitz
- Norway : approx. 30 km west of Lillehammer
- Russia : Ufa
- Sweden : Hjortkvarn
- United States : Plato , Missouri (2010)
- United Kingdom : Appleby Parva (2000)
See also
literature
- Jürgen Bähr : Population Geography . 4th updated and revised edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8252-1249-1 , ( UTB Geography 1249).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Change in diets as a result of regional and social mobility and intercultural assimilation, illustrated using the example of ethnic minorities in the USA ( Memento from March 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) ( MS Word ; 275 kB)
- ↑ a b The German Center - It is around Spangenberg by Claus Stephan Rehfeld, deutschlandradio.de of November 5, 2004
- ↑ Centers of Population at the US Census Bureau