WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Urbanization means
A
move to the city
B
move to the country
C
kicking people off their land
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Urbanisation is the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities. Urbanisation occurs because people move from rural areas (countryside) to urban areas (towns and cities). This usually occurs when a country is still developing.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: The process by which huge numbers of people are permanently concentrated in relatively limited regions, establishing cities, is known as urbanisation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Urbanization refers to the mass movement of populations from rural to urban settings and the consequent physical changes to urban settings.

Detailed explanation-4: -Urbanization is a word for becoming more like a city. When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. This is called urbanization.

Detailed explanation-5: -Seoul in South Korea is a prime example of urbanisation. In 1950, 1.4 million people lived in this city. By 1990, that number rose to over 10 million.

Detailed explanation-6: -The two causes of urbanisation are natural population increase and rural to urban migration. Urbanisation affects all sizes of settlements from small villages to towns to cities, leading up to the growth of mega-cities which have more than ten million people.

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