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peopled industrial districts of the English midlands. This area, as it is 

 shown on the accompanying map (Fig. 4), occupies a little less than one- 



FiG. 4. — The Area of Maximum Concentration of Population in Great Britain. 



fifth of the island. It now contains five conurbations each of which has 

 more than a million inhabitants, and twenty other large towns with more 

 than a hundred thousand each. Its mean population density is about 



