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GREENLAND
U.S.
(Alaska)
60
°
CANADA
40
°
40
°
UNITED STATES
ATLANTIC
BERMUDA
OCEAN
BAHAMAS
MEXICO
Tropic of Cancer
CUBA
DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC
20
°
20
°
20
°
JAMAICA
U.S.
(Hawaii)
BELIZE
HONDURAS
NICARAGUA
HAITI
PUERTO
RICO
PACIFIC
GUATEMALA
EL SALVADOR
COSTA RICA
PANAMA
BARBADOS
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
OCEAN
VENEZUELA
SURINAME
FRENCH GUIANA
COLOMBIA
GUYANA
Equator
0
°
ECUADOR
BRAZIL
PERU
OIL PRODUCTION
BY COUNTRY,
2009
Barrels per day
BOLIVIA
20
°
20
°
20
°
Tropic of Capricorn
PARAGUAY
Over 5,000,000
URUGUAY
CHILE
ARGENTINA
1,000,000-5,000,000
40
°
40
°
40
°
40
°
500,000-1,000,000
100,000-500,000
160
°
140
°
120
°
80
°
60
°
40
°
Under 100,000
60
°
60
°
60
°
60
°
SOUTHERN
OCEAN
No oil produced
0
1000
2000
3000 Kilometers
0
1000
2000 Miles
Figure 12.12
Oil production by country, 2009.
Data from: United States Central Intelligence Agency,
World Factbook, 2011.
economy, and their decisions created several major and
lesser industrial districts.
Under state planning rules, the
Northeast district
(formerly known as Manchuria and now called Dongbei)
became China's industrial heartland, a complex of heavy
industries based on the region's coal and iron deposits
located in the basin of the Liao River. Shenyang became
the “Chinese Pittsburgh,” with metallurgical, machine-
making, engineering, and other large industries. Anshan,
to the south, emerged as China's leading iron- and steel-
producing center. Harbin to the north (China's northern-
most large city, with more than 5.4 million inhabitants)
produced textiles, farm equipment, and light manufac-
tures of many kinds (Fig. 12.13).
The second largest industrial region in China, the
Shanghai and the Chang Jiang district
, developed in and
around the country's biggest city, Shanghai. The Chang
Jiang district, containing both Shanghai and Wuhan, rose
to prominence and, by some measures, exceeded the
Northeast as a contributor to the national economy.
Another industrial complex that developed farther
upstream, along the Chang Jiang River, focused on the
