Cambridge International AS & A Level

GEOGRAPHY 9696/02
Paper 2 Core Human Geography For examination from 2020
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Fig. 1.1 for Question 1

Percentage of married women using modern contraception and total fertility rate, by country,
in 2012

9.0
Niger
8.0

7.0
total fertility rate (TFR)

6.0 Ethiopia

5.0

4.0

India
3.0 Bosnia– Mexico
USA
Herzegovina
2.0
China
1.0

0.0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
percentage of married women using modern contraception

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Fig. 2.1 for Question 2

Asylum seekers who arrived in Australia by boat in 2010

BBC News 15 December 2010 15.50hrs

Christmas Island shipwreck kills asylum seekers

42 drown trying to reach Australia

Australia has seen an increase this year in asylum seekers arriving by boat. Today’s incident, in which
42 people drowned when their boat smashed against rocks in a storm, shows the dangers involved in
these journeys.

There are currently almost 3000 people in the Christmas Island Immigra
on Deten
on Centre wai
ng
for officials to rule on their cases.

Iran Afghanistan
Iraq 2706
883
636
Pakistan
Palestine 19
40
Other
Kuwait Burma countries
56 96 650

Vietnam
Sri Lanka 31
537

Christmas Island

Australia

Key
number of people
by country of origin

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Development of Seoul urban region, South Korea, 1970–2000

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Uijongbu
Uijongbu
Uijongbu Ilsan Kuri
Inchon Nikaum
Inchon Kangbuk
Han River
Inchon
Han River
Han River Hanam
Puchon
Kangnam Kwangmyong
Slhung Anyang Seongnam
Puchon Pundang
Seongnam
Ansan Kwacheon
Anyang
Suwon Kunpo Suwon
Suwon Ewang

Fig. 3.1 Fig. 3.2 Fig. 3.3

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by 1970 by 1980 by 2000

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Key
built-up area
N
direction of growth

greenbelt

Han River

expanded town
new town

urban renewal
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Copyright Acknowledgements:

Question 1 © John R Weeks; Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues; Thomson Wadsworth; 2008.
Question 1 © Population Reference Bureau; http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2012/world-population-data-sheet/data-.
Question 2 © adapted: Christmas Island Shipwreck Kills Asylum Seekers; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11997231; 15 December
2010.
Question 3 © Joochul Kim & Sang-Chuel Choe; Seoul: The Making of a Metropolis; John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 1997.

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