1. Where is industry distributed?
Less than one percent of Earth’s land is devoted to industry (25% to agriculture)
¾ of industrial production is concentrated in four regions:
Northwestern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern North America
East Asia

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3. WESTERN EUROPE
4 regions developed because of proximity to resources and markets
And diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
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4. Western Europe 1. United Kingdom
Home of the Industrial Revolution
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5. Western Europe 2. Rhine-Rhur Valley and Mid-Rhine
First place industrial revolution diffused to
Proximity to large coal fields, access to iron and steel
Acess to major rivers (Rhine and Rhur
Mid-Rhine
Center of Europe's most important consumer market

6. Western Europe 3.Northern Italy
Large number of workers willing to work cheap
Inexpensive hydroelectricity from the Alps

7. Eastern Europe’s Districts
Moscow District
access to large markets
St. Petersburg District
proximity to Baltic Sea
Volga District
large petroleum and natural gas fields close to rivers
Ural District
Minerals in the Ural mountains

8. Eastern Europe’s Districts
Kuznetsk District
coal and iron-ore
Eastern Ukraine District
coal, iron, gas, etc.
Silesia District
coal

9. North America New England Historically populated
Abundant, cheap immigrant labor
Middle Atlantic
Largest Market (close to New York)
Main ports
Mohawk Valley
Inexpensive abundant hydroelectricity (Niagara Falls)

10. North America Pittsburgh-Lake Erie Coal and Iron in the Appalachians
Steel production attracted more industry
Western Great Lakes
Automobiles
Transportation
St. Lawrence Valley
Close to Canadian Markets
Close to Niagara Falls
Close to Great Lakes

11. Major Deposits of Fossil Fuels in North America

12. Major Manufacturing Regions of North America

13. East Asia Isolated from world markets Access to ports
Large labor force working for cheap
Grew based on production of cheap exports
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