Saudi Arabia 1996
Yearbook 1996 Saudi Arabia. Low oil prices continued during the year to erode the welfare of Saudi Arabia and provide the breeding ground for a growing militant Islamism. A power…
The interior of continental Southeast Asia (such as the Mekong region) and the large islands (such as Sumatra, Borneo), which was formerly completely covered with tropical rainforests, is increasingly being developed and populated. The population density is increasing in these areas. Within Southeast Asia, the agricultural favored area of Java emerges with the highest population densities; The difference to the other islands in Indonesia is particularly striking.
The concentration of large metropolises is striking in South and East Asia. In the ranking of the world’s largest agglomerations, many of the top places are occupied by metropolitan regions in Asia. In first place is Tokyo, followed by megacities like Delhi, Shanghai, Mumbai, Dhaka, Jakarta, Seoul, Calcutta, Manila and others. In the Perfluent Delta around Guangzhou and Hong Kong, a new urban agglomeration is emerging that, with its almost 60 million residents, could compete with Tokyo for first place as the largest urban agglomeration in the world.
As a comparison with the population figures from 1970 shows, all the cities mentioned – and many others in the region – have increased their population figures many times over in just a few decades. The most important reason for this development is the urban-rural divide characteristic of many developing and emerging countries, which has greatly accelerated the urbanization process in this part of Asia. In China, for example, less than 30 percent of the population lived in cities in 1980; today it is well over 50 percent. For more information about the continent of Asia, please check politicsezine.com.
Yearbook 1996 Saudi Arabia. Low oil prices continued during the year to erode the welfare of Saudi Arabia and provide the breeding ground for a growing militant Islamism. A power…
Yearbook 1996 Qatar. Qatar’s former emir, the Sheikh Khalifa resident of the United Arab Emirates, visited Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and Syria in late 1995 and early 1996 in…
Yearbook 1996 Philippines. President Fidel Ramos and the leader of one of the island’s Mindanao Muslim guerrillas, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Nur Misuari, announced on August 19 that…
Yearbook 1996 Pakistan. Pakistan was in deep crisis in 1996. In Karachi, the country’s financial center, the unrest between security forces and immigrants from India, the so-called Muhajirs, continued. Almost…
The country’s oil deposits were discovered in 1964 and commercially exploited from 1967. Since then, oil has been the focal point of the economy and accounts for half of the…
Yearbook 1996 North Korea. Politically isolated and financially impoverished, the communist North Korea continued to set conditions for relaxation on the peninsula. At the same time, food shortages continued after…
Yearbook 1996 Nepal. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba made major changes to the coalition government during the year. In June, one government-appointed committee accused 175 business companies and banks of…
Yearbook 1996 Burma. Although Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in 1995, the military junta’s harassment continued by her and her National League for Democracy…
Yearbook 1996 Mongolia. After 75 years of communist rule, there was a regime change in the parliamentary elections in June. The Reformed Communists of the Mongolian Revolutionary Party (Mongol Ardyn…
Yearbook 1996 Maldives. The Maldives is one of the LDC countries – the least developed countries in the world – which has noted high growth in recent times. During the…