Geography – 9th Standard (Standard IX) – Lesson 1 highlights

My apologies for not having posted for long. This is my post on 9th Standard Geography. I have covered the major points that have potential to appear in TNPSC Question paper. So I would say reading this as much equivalent to reading the social text book.

Lesson 1: The World we live in

• Geographical area of world: 148 million sq kms (57 million sq miles)
• Total countries : 193
• Biggest Russia (17.08 million sq km or 6.593 million sq miles)
• Smallest Vatican (0.44 sq kms)
• Population – biggest : China (1.273 billion); 2nd largest India (1.03 billion)
• Population – least : Vatican (890 people)
• Fastest Population growth rate – Yamen (4.07%)
• Slowest population growth rate – Ukraine (-0.94%)
• Top 3 high density of population: Morocco, Singapore, Vatican
• World’s largest cities
  • Mumbai (12 million ppl)
  • Buenos Aires – capital of Argentina (11.7 million ppl)
  • Seoul (11.2 million ppl)
• Richest countries: USA, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, China, Canada, Spain, Portugal
• Fast growing countries – China (10.7%), Vietnam (8.1%), Singapore (8%)
• Highest per capita income: Luxembourg ($45,348), Japan ($34,556), Norway ($34,356), USA ($33,922)
• Total major languages spoken in world: 3000 (6000 including those spoken by few ppl)
• Glacial period ended 12,000 years ago
• Indo european language is spoken by 47% of world population
• 200 languages spoken by more than 1 million
• 23 languages spoken by 50 million each
• Tamil is the oldest Dravidian language
• 5% ppl speak dravidian language in the world
• 1983 – Star war program of USA
• 1991 – soviet union fell
• Indian population expected to stabilize by 2050
• Indians live in 110 other countries besides India (20 million NRIs in 2003)
• Tiger Economies: Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea, Hongkong, Singapore
• 9th Jan – NRI Day or Pravasi Bharathiya Divas – the day when Gandhi came to India from South Africa

Will keep updating lessons one by one.

 

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