|
| Geographers are curious about the environmental and human spatial
patterns on earth.
For example, this map of GNP per capita (a country's gross national
product divided by its population) shows that countries with similar GNPs
are found mostly in the same areas of the
world. Why? What do the countries in the same
categories have
in common other than the amount of wealth?
Notice the pattern for the countries formerly linked to the Soviet Union, now Russia (called the Second World). In 1995, 161 countries had a lower GNP than the amount of money spent at Wal-Marts worldwide! |
|
|
| Source: World Bank Atlas 1996. Check out the World Bank. |
|
|
| 
|
Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 1 February 1996; last revised on 07 March 2005.
Map of Gross National Product Per
Capita 
