Identifier: appliedgeography00kelt (find matches)
Title: Applied geography, a preliminary sketch. With ten maps
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Keltie, John Scott, Sir, 1840-1927
Subjects: Geography, Commercial Geography, Economic
Publisher: London, G. Philip & son, ltd.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he terror of merciless fanaticism brooded overall the Sudan. Here are two instances by which we maymeasure the rate at which the available lands ofthe globe are being occupied and utilised byEurope and Europes off-shoot, the United Statesof America. We have already seen the changesthat have taken place in Africa within about aquarter of a century. During the same period, Europe, and latterlyAmerica, have been busy in Asia, with its seven-teen million square miles, including its great fringeof islands. Here we have in operation a new factor,Russia, which has only flirted with Africa ; heradvance over Asia has been so persistent andeffective that directly or indirectly she claims someseven million square miles of the continent. GreatBritain catinot claim much more than two millionsquare milea, while France, Holland, and thoUnited States have only a million among them(Holland 740,000 square miles). Turkeys 730,000square miles in Asia may be said to be in a state of THE UNSTAKED GLOBE 1S3
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o < Pi o 184 APPLIED GEOGRAPHY. unstable equilibrium, and so, indeed, is the casewith the 640,000 square miles of Persia, the 260,000square miles of Afghanistan, and the 240,000 squaremiles of Siam. No European Power is likely totrouble much about the million square miles whichconstitute the independent portion of Arabia ; it ismostly a continuation eastwards of the Sahara.The one country in Asia which the four pushfulPowers of Europe (and the United States is notindifferent) are all eagerly watching, is the ChineseEmpire, which in its widest extent, covers con-siderably over four million square miles. But thatincludes Tibet, 652,000 square miles, the Lhasadistrict of which, with its rich land and its almostvirgin gold mines, is the only portion worth having.Japan, with its insignificant 150,000 square miles,is the one native State in Asia which EuropeanPowers respect; Korea has gone to Japan as theresult of the latters effective check to Russiasadvance. Altogether, it may be said

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