Population and Settlement

I have chosen to write about population and settlement. This is one of the 5 themes to human geography. I feel this is important to North America because many people come here for many reasons and settle here.
Today more than 335 million people live in North America. 90 percent of Canada’s population is found within 100 miles of the United States boarder. Large urban region formed as multiple cities and grow and merge within each other is known as Megalopolis. The best example for this is the string of cities in eastern North America which includes; Washington DC; Baltimore; Philadelphia; New York; and Boston. North America increased ever since the European colonization. Before 1900’s large families increased along with foreign immigration settlement, which still occurs today. Less than 300,000 Indian were settled in Canada but, in the 1760’s Europeans came to settle and the population sky rocketed to 3.2 million people a century later! After World War II birth rates rose causing the “baby boom” generation born between 1946 and 1965. North Americas’ population is getting older, but it still brings in immigrants. A prediction by United Kingdom is that by 2050 the region’s population will grow to 445 million.
First stage: series of European colonial footholds, mostly in coastal regions of eastern North America. These footholds were established between 1600 and 1700.
Second stage: Europeanization of the North American landscape took place between 1750 and 1850.
Third stage: North America’s settlement expansion accelerated after 1850 and continued till 1910.
160 years later North American landscape was domesticated when the expanding population sought new land to occupy.

Rural to urban migration. North American tend is people migrate from country to city. 2 century s ago only 5 percent of North America lived in urban areas. now more then 80 percent live in urban areas. It comes down to that all of North America is a moving region were we are constantly going and always changing.