China is one of the top five largest countries in the world. It is located in Southeast Asia, and it borders 14 countries. Its capital city is Beijing, which is home to 11.5 million people according to statistics taken in 2015, and currently has a staggering growth rate. Although Beijing is the capital city of China, there are larger cities in the country. Shanghai is home to 23 million people in 2013, and is considered to be China's largest city.
Northeast megalopolis The Northeast megalopolis (also Boston-Washington Corridor or Bos-Wash Corridor) is the most heavilyurbanized region of the United States, running primarily northeast to southwest from the northern suburbs of Boston,Massachusetts, to the southern suburbs of Washington, D.C. in Northern Virginia. [2] It includes the major cities of Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., along with their metropolitan areas and suburbs as well as many smaller urban centers. On a map, the Northeast megalopolis appears almost as a straight line. As of the year 2000, the region supported 49.6 million people, about 17% of the U.S. population on less than 2% of the nation’s land area, with a population density of 931.3 people per square mile (359.6 people/km2), compared to the U.S. average of 80.5 per square mile (31 people/km2). America 2050 projections expect the area to grow to 58.1 million people by 2025.
Kendle Net Income margin of 5.3 % in 1996 is much higher than 1.6% of the Quintiles which is considered to be the “golden standard” of the industry and more than double more than 2.2% net income margins average. These good financial ratios can be explained by the in-depth control of financial performance of the Company by its owners and Kendle preparation to the IPO process. By 1996, Kandle conducted clinical trials for 12 of the world’s 20 largest pharmaceutical companies. Research is a labor-intensive business and Kendle focuses a lot on maximizing labor utilization on 65 % to 70% utulazation rate to make sure that the profit margins are higher, especially on the operational level. With a qualitative and experienced management team Kendle organized the well-defined organizational structure where all the strategic business units carried profit responsibility.
Galveston was one of the largest cotton ports in the nation at the time, rivaling New Orleans. During this era, Galveston was home to a number of state firsts, for example: the first post office in 1836, the first naval base in 1836, the first insurance company in 1854, the first gas lights in 1856, the first opera house in 1870, the first orphanage in 1876, the first telephone in 1878, the first electric lights in 1883, the first
Compare and Contrast Essay: Two Cities Chicago and Da Nang. Chicago City is the most popular city in the world for skyscrapers, large buildings, business, tourism, and entertainment. Despite that event, Da Nang is a popular city just as well as Chicago. Da Nang is the largest city in central Vietnam and one of the country's most important ports. Ringed by mountains on one side and the East Sea on the other, Da Nang has numerous sites of natural beauty and historical interest.
Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection NUR 405 October 27. 2014 Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Newburgh, New York is a community located approximately ninety minutes north of New York City and near the scenic Hudson River. In 2013, the population was 28,871 with an average age of 29 years old (“Newburgh, NY demographics”, 2014). The city is frequently in the local news, very rarely for good things, and most commonly for the increased crime rates. This area is interesting because the outskirts of the town are affluent with parks, large shopping centers and restaurants, large and beautifully maintained homes, farms, and medical centers with access to primary care providers and specialist.
London is a leading global city and is the world’s largest financial city along with New York. It is a major centre economically for commerce and international business but is also strong in the arts, education, entertainment, fashion, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport. London generates 20% of the UK’s total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and is the sixth largest city economy in the world, which is impressive when comparing its size to other cities, such as the megacities of Tokyo, Bangalore and Shanghai. If London was to get flooded by the nearby Thames it would take ruin the UKs economy and would take a lot of money and time to rebuild businesses and infrastructure. The Thames runs right through the city centre, near high business and economic hubs such as Canary Wharf, so this puts London’s financial centre at an even greater risk.
Aubrey Love 6/6/2011 LA Cluster Sem: 8 Gang Culture Changing Los Angeles Los Angeles is the largest city on the West Coast, the most populous in California, home to more than 3.5 million citizens, and the second most populous city in the nation, following New York City. Nicknamed the “City of Angels,” L.A. houses people from more than 140 countries speaking 224 different languages. But is Los Angeles really a “City of Angels?” L.A.’s cultural diversity causes the city to be divided into many neighborhoods, many of which were towns that were annexed by the growing city. Although Los Angeles is diverse, with this diversity comes animosity between certain ethnic groups fighting for a recognition and territory. Los Angeles is often referred to as the “gang capital of North America” home to some of the world’s most notorious gangs.
Buenos Aires is home to the largest Mosque in South America. Economy: The economy in the city proper alone, measured by GDP, totaled US$ 84.7 billion in 2011 and amounts to nearly a quarter of Argentina are as a whole. Rio de Janeiro has the second largest GDP of any city in Brazil. According to the IBGE, it was approximately US$ 201 billion in 2008, equivalent to 5.1% of the national total. Climate: Buenos Aires has a humid subtropical climate, with humid summers and mild winters while Rio has a tropical savanna climate that closely borders a tropical monsoon climate.
For many the main question is, more specifically, why did the industrial revolution not take place in China? In the years preceding the industrial revolution, until around 1800, China was one of the largest nations on earth, both in terms of population and economic output; it had also been one of the most advanced nations for many centuries, as Yifu Lin says ‘China by the fourteenth century was probably the most cosmopolitan, technologically advanced and economically powerful civilisation in the world’ China went from having 32.8% of the world’s total output in 1750 to having 8.2% in 1860, while in the same time period Europe went from having 23.3% to 53.2% (Mukherjee, 2004). Therefore a common question is; why did Europe experience an ‘Industrial Revolution’ before China? There was not one single factor