March 26, 2013

Places & Their Importance


1. Yorkshire -woollen textile

2. Lancashire- cotton textile

3. Glasgow -ship building

4. Sheffield -Cutlery & steel works

5. Lorraine- Iron ore (France)

6. Lyon -Silk Industry (France)

7. Silesia- Coal (Poland) – high grade

8. Lodz- Manchester of Poland

9. Hamburg -Ship Building (Germany)

10. Stuttgart -Automobile (Germany)

11. Munich -Instruments (Germany)

12. Karl Marx Stadt -Textile (Germany)

13. Sambre-Meuse -Coal (Belgium)

14. Marseilles- Oil Refinery

15. Baku- Capital city of Azerbaijan & chief refining center.

16. Chicago- Biggest railway junction

17. Detroit -Automobile

18. Seattle -Aircraft

19. Cadiz- Cork (Spain)

20. Changchun -Automobile & machine tools (China)

21. Chelyabinsk -Iron & Steel (Russia)

22. Dresden- Optical, Photo & Graphic instruments (Germany)

23. Dusseldorf- Iron & Steel (Germany)

24. Essen- Iron & Steel (Germany)

25. Essex -Engineering works (England)

26. Kharkov- Machine building & Engineering (Ukraine)

27. Kiev- Engineering (Ukraine)

28. Magnitogorsk- Iron & Steel (Russia)

29. Nagoya- Cotton & Ship building (Japan)

30. Nizhny Tagil -Iron & Steel (Russia)

31. Venice- Glass Industry

32. Vienna -Glass Industry

33. Philadelphia- Locomotives (USA)

34. Plymouth- Shipbuilding (USA)

35. Yenang Yang -Oil Drilling (Myanmar)

36. Gorky / Nizhny Novogorod- Engineering Industry.

37. Belfast -Ship building (Ireland)