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Match the words below with the places in .

Extra vocabulary
densely populated density poor healthcare good education
physician slavery high living standards crime
clean water malnutrition
densely populated hunger
Look at the pictures and discuss

1. what places they are.
Read the information about the two places.
2. how they are diff erent.
Mauritania, the desert nation in Africa
Make a list of your ideas and share them with
your class.

Area: 1,030,700 km 2
Population: over three
million
Density: three/km 2
Economy: mainly agriculture
Healthcare: poor, high infant death rate
Problems: three quarters desert, slavery,
child labour, hunger
Unusual fact: obese women are considered
beautiful

Hong Kong

Area: 1,104 km 2
Population: over seven million
Density: over six thousand/km 2
Economy: mainly service industry and tourism
Healthcare : one of the best healthcare
systems in the world
Problems: overcrowded, crime
Unusual fact: most skyscrapers in the world

Work in pairs. Use the information in to
talk about the diff erences between the two
places.

Example:
The population of Mauritania is very small, only
over three milion people. Hong Kong is much
larger. It has more than seven milion people.

63 Unit 12/An Overcrowded World