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Sahara-Arabian Desert.'* This region 
contains more than 500 million inhabi- 
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of land. In the Far East the similarly 
populous region which includes most 
of China and Manchuria, the Japa- 
nese Empire south of 40° N. latitude, 
14 See also Sir H. J. Mackinder, Democratic 
ideals and reality, London, 1919; and C. B. 
Fawcett, Centers of world power, in the 
Sociological Review, April 1926, and The 
changing distribution of population, Scottish 
Geographical Magazine, November 1937. 
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and Tonkin, is occupied by nearly as 
many people on an area of barely 
1,700,000 square miles. And in India 
and Ceylon, between the Thar Desert 
and the eastern edge of Bengal, there 
are 400 million people on about a 
million square miles of land. Thus in 
these three major populous regions of 
the Old World there are crowded to- 
gether nearly two-thirds of the world’s 
population oa one-eighth of the availa- 
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