Why is there a narrow strip of land in Europe from

Industrialization only happened in 10% of Europe? Which book explains this?

>grow bananas

What’s the customer demographic for Dutch bananas?

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Here ya go. It doesn’t correlate with population density.

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Everyone, literally everyone buys bananas every once in a while.
Good for kalium. But we shouldn't grow it here, it's inefficient and only exists because of subsidies

In Britain it does

Ignore the Alps or anywhere that is too steep or too cold for agriculture.

In China slopes certainly make a difference. Nothing beats terraces.

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Terrain

They are called mountains.

>we grow bananas
Are you fucking retarded

Rivers and trade routes.
You're a mediaeval monk making a pilgrimage from Ireland to Rome. Sea travel is dangerous and unpleasant. Plot a journey on the map you posted.

The only reason Ireland's population is so low is because of the potato famine and emigration

Isn't it kinda obvious that there must have been unique environmental circumstances that caused people living in those areas to evolve differently than people outside it? Thus those people were slightly more industrious and had other traits that lead to those places being more dense in population.

Google "hajnal line" OP. Check out HBDchick's work on it in particular. It explains western European success. I think she touches on the Blue Banana too:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana

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Rivers and bays.
Anons are right when they point out the Rhine.
Thames, Dee and the Waters of Leith explain all UK.

It's called Blue Banana and you can read about it here:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana

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The Hajnal line is just a reflection of the population density of those areas. If 90% of Europeans live within a certain area, it shouldn't be surprising if a large proportion of advances and discoveries come from that area too.

Those places have different manorial systems stretching back a thousand years which probably had an effect on the people living there. And obviously there's going to be a brain drain effect where the brightest from the outskirts move to urban areas.

Wow, thank you Hans. Honestly didn’t know about the Blue Banana. Interesting concept!

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How does France have a bigger population than Italy, with all that green?

Isn't the climate pretty similar in the blue banana? Southwest is much hotter. Northeast is much colder.

No reason. France is just evil.

Balance well doggo

>germanic people
>heart of the holy roman empire

That wasn't that hard

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Earliest beneficiaries of the industrial revolution, and the high amount of urbanization associated with it.

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>What are kassen

We grow everything that grows in warm climates

It’s more concentrated, over 18% of France’s population live here.

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a kraut named 'kevin'
thats spooky

Megalopolis’ are interesting developments for sue

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>megalopolis
wut?

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resources

Essentially the worlds population is increasingly being concentrated into large adjacent and continuous urban areas that have been dubbed “mega cities”.
Over three quarters of the US population live in the highlighted areas here as of 2010.

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Basically a large zone of your country that is
heavily urbanized and includes several cities and millions of people. For example, the Mediterranean coast of Southern Europe.

France also has nearly twice as much land as Italy.

>tfw Germanic

MAN Im retarded I thought those were satellite night time picture....ha feels bad man.

Because the Netherlands is really flat and every square cm of our soft and fertile land is being used.

So basically spain is an empty drought desert

what a monstrosity

This map is fucked, though.
Sofia City district is ~1,300km^2 with a ~1,6 million population and is marked green.
Varna district has a density of ~124 per km^2 and it's shown as 44-62
Burgas district on the seaside has a density of ~54 per km^2 and it's shown as >195
I guess the rest of Europe is as correct as this.

All Germans are named Hans or Kevin. You, Eric, should know that.

>Hans or Kevin
Hans sure but Kevin? Whats next Philip?
You taking the piss Kraut?

Cities & ports

mega regions are a hell of a thing

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There are several countries in Europe where at least a quarter of the population lives in the capital metro area, namely the baltics, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria etc.

Geographically important zones for medieval commerce and trade.
For the Rhine it's mostly the industrial revolution, since the 30 years war wiped a bunch of krauts

No, Kevin is the number 1 name in Germany.

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It's actually Mohammed

THe fuck says kevin on that list?

Calm down Pedro.

The border between east and west Frankia.

Ok Paco

Is Brugge worth visiting?

i thought all germans are named Tobias

he is making fun of you. the name kevin has become a meme in germany. being a kevin means, you are a retard.

It's called the Rhine river, retard.

The Rhine and it's delta.

The massive cunt.

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Weren't the Lombards a germanic tribe?

>Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia: no data

lol they are such unorganized shitholes, that there's not even FUCKING POPULATION DENSITY DATA available.

fucking shithole slavniggers

Same here
t. Kevin, but I'm forced to go by Kev because no one wants to call me Kevin

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Same, but it pretty much goes for every anglo name, especially if it ends with a -y.

it's a shithole

Where does the meme comes from?
Based on a person or what?

Roman highways and of course naturally occuring waterways.

>it's a shithole
Why doesn't anyone ever call out New Yorkers for expressing that sentiment towards people New Jersey? Why is Trump always treated like he's an island?

Isn't it a name of Irish origin tho?

It goes deeper than industrialization.

The Rhine is the civilizational heart of the West since the days of Merovech and Charlemagne. West of that, France and its historical spinoffs England and Spain, forming western Europe. East of that, Germany and various peoples influenced by it, forming central Europe. In between, the remnants of the central kingdom of Lotharingia, stretching from Benelux to northern Italy - nations too small to defend themselves from their huge neighbors, but thriving in trade and acting as neutral ground. The parallels between Flemish and northern Italian history are no coincidences. Northern Italy especially developped from the Middle Ages onward as a kind of big Switzerland, a safe ground for banking and wealth, protected as it were by the Alps - unlike Benelux which became the battleground of Europe for centuries.

Another consideration is demographics. France invented rural Malthusianism in the 17th century, centralism and genocide (in the Vendée), while Spain was too occupied in peopling the New World to densify its great plains. The Rhine axis in Germany was exaggerated as a result of WWII - successful reindustrialization, influx of refugees from the lost territories, Turkish/southern European immigration and internal migration from the East after reunification. In the 19th century, Saxony (Mitteldeutschland) was the densest region in Germany.

>How does Russia have a bigger population than Singapore, with all that green?

What massive fucking river is in the west of Germany?
Why is it easier to move goods (especially coal, ore and steel) along a river when there are no good roads?
Did you listen in geography class?

youtube.com/watch?v=dZPV1MF6Kgs
It's a movie reference.

Nobody really knows but if I had to guess it's because of low class parents naming their child after their favorite hollywood actors a few decades back bringing tons of white trash low IQ Kevins into society.
Just a theory though

????

Is there no countryside in Belgium?

Dont expect the DNA autists to consider any variable other than Genetics. These people are insane.

coincidentally also 1.8% of Africa's population lives there.

No.
They went full retard and ushered in what was called Lintbebouwing.
Say you have a village of 5000 people and another village of 3000 people 3 miles away.
They connected it with a road and allowed people to build all along that road.
This times 1000.
There are no large patches of land.

low income/white trash often named their kids kevin to sound more modern/hip. at some point teachers were asked to estimate kids performance in school. guess what name fared worst?

Like 60% of Flanders is farmland.

Balance well doggo

>white trash
It's OK for everyone but Trump to talk like this, apparently.

Of course, although it can feel a bit like Disneyland and inauthentic as a tourist.

Practically not in Flanders. Public regulation is a disaster in Belgium, and now the "countryside" in Flanders is mostly suburbs for people working in Brussels, Antwerp or Ghent. Also, the catholic establishment did not want Flemish workers forming big communist movements in the cities so they encouraged the industrialization of mid-sized towns like Lokeren or Sint-Niklaas.

I can see this happening in 20 years with game of thrones characters name.
Man those kids are fucked.

Great post. Demographics are destiny.

Franks and the places they influenced.

hbdchick.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/family-types-and-the-selection-for-nepotistic-altruism/

And pretty much this

>it's a shithole
Why?

What have Belgium done?

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It does in many places, especially Scandinavia, but other places too (Spain).

Isn't the cost of living quite high in Ireland?

Balance well doggo

>Not a single arabic name
Holy shit, I'm so proud of you, Germany!