Chapter 1268 Population Distribution
Today, the Rensem Fowa River is particularly turbulent. The rushing water spurts out from the gate of the Fowa Dam, causing huge waves, violently hitting the river surface, and then rolling southward.
The four Maxims, led by security personnel and reservoir managers, climbed to the top of the Fowa Dam.
"The Foy River Reservoir is the largest water source in the surrounding area. In order to maintain water quality, only industrial zones are built along the Rensem Foy River downstream of the reservoir."
"There are not many residential areas around the reservoir area, except for the Rhine City in the west. The buildings around the Foix River Reservoir are only palaces, parks, gardens, some government agencies and some reservoir area management agencies."
"The water diversion facilities built by the government continuously supply lake water to cities and farms, forming a developed water conservancy network on the west side..."
The manager of the reservoir area seriously explained to the four people the relevant contents of the Foix River Reservoir.
"After the completion of the Foix Hydropower Station, the power supply of the Rhine City is guaranteed, and there is still a surplus to be transmitted to surrounding areas every year."
"Downstream of the hydropower station, the west side area is the southwest industrial zone of Rhine City. Textile factories, printing and dyeing factories, paper mills, etc. are all concentrated in this area."
"Make full use of the cheap electricity resources, water resources and forest resources here. In the east is the undeveloped virgin forest, and the Rhine City-Klimane railway runs through the forest area."
While they were talking, there was an Eastern train passing below, emitting heavy smoke. The four of them could take in a panoramic view of the scenery in the distance.
Prince Maxim interjected: "That is a fuel locomotive that is relatively widely equipped in East Africa. It has replaced traditional steam locomotives on a large scale and is running on the land of East Africa."
Fuel locomotives are a major feature of East Africa. Although fuel locomotives also exist in the railway systems of other countries, their popularity is far lower than in East Africa.
Princess Anastasia said: "The train we took from Dar es Salaam to Rhine City was probably pulled by this kind of locomotive. Compared with the steam locomotive, it produced significantly less smoke. "
Prince Maxim replied affirmatively: "Of course, the combustion efficiency of an internal combustion engine is much higher than that of a steam engine, so it is inevitable that it produces less smoke. Currently, the diesel locomotives on the East African railways mainly use diesel to provide electricity to drive the engine. operation, thereby providing power to the train.”
Alexey said: “Our Russian trains basically still use steam locomotives, which run like a moving chimney, especially in winter when the snow is white, and can form a lighting contrast with the surrounding environment. "
Listening to Crown Prince Alexei's description, Prince Maxim said with some fascination: "That must be spectacular. We basically don't see snow in East Africa. Except for some snow-capped mountains and the southern mountainous areas, most places don't even have a single snowflake." Can’t even see it.”
"But I heard that in some special years, due to extreme weather, it may snow in some special areas, but the probability is very small. Even if it happens, the snow will only be a thin layer."
Countries like East Africa, which are located along the equator, are not without winter. In fact, some high-altitude areas are relatively cold in winter, especially at night.
Princess Maria was quite interested in the fact that it snows in East Africa. She said, "I thought it never snowed in tropical countries like East Africa!"
Prince Maxim said: "Even in the hottest equatorial areas, as long as the conditions are met, you can see the snow scene, but it is difficult for ordinary people to see it."
"In the southern part of the Prussian province of the empire, Kilimanjaro is a snow-capped mountain. From the plain between the mountains, you can see the white snow on the top of Kilimanjaro at a glance. It is also the highest mountain in East Africa, with a height of more than 5,800 meters. It is also the tallest mountain on the entire African continent and it is also a volcano.”
This is another knowledge point that the three people from Russia did not know before. After all, most people will not pay attention to the highest mountain in Africa.
What's more, East Africa has only been open for a few years, and a lot of geographical data has not even flowed out of the country. After the reopening in recent years, some European explorers and geographers have entered East Africa to explore.
But time is already too late. After all, although East Africa has been closed to the country for a long time, it is quite well versed in its own geography.
Moreover, exploring East Africa has lost its appeal. European explorers used to be very curious about Africa because Africa is mysterious, dangerous, and exciting.
But after East Africa truly opened up to the outside world, that is, after 1910, highly developed transportation made East Africa basically accessible to other places except for some extremely harsh areas, such as the Congo rainforest and the southwest desert.
And even the Congo rainforest or the southwest desert, some areas have already been explored in East Africa.
As for Mount Kilimanjaro, this common knowledge that is the focus of East African geography textbooks is also a check-in point for many East African tourists. It is not only connected by roads and railways, but also has scenic spots, hotels and other service areas built in East Africa.
It can be said that the construction of transportation and other aspects has disappointed many explorers who hoped for the excitement of transportation to East Africa. After all, what they hoped for was the pleasure of measuring and conquering unfamiliar lands and natural wonders with their own feet. However, when they arrived in East Africa, it became Traveling is obviously not what they are after.
In this way, venturing to East Africa is not as good as rafting in the Amazon rainforest in South America. After all, for the same area, the population density of South America is far less than that of East Africa, and there are more unexplored and undeveloped areas.
Take the rainforests of the two places as an example. Cabinda, Kinshasa and Kisan in East Africa are all typical rainforest cities, and these three cities are just large cities. Cabinda is also an international large city. East Africa has more small cities and villages developed in the Congo rainforest.
In contrast, there are not many cities that can be called names in the Amazon rainforest. The population of Brazil, the largest country in the region, is only more than 20 million, and almost all of them live in the southeast corner where Rio de Janeiro is located.
The population of East Africa is as high as more than 100 million. Moreover, under the long-term planned economic state, East Africa attaches great importance to the coordinated development and development of the region, which makes the population of East Africa far more even than that of South America.
You know, the area of East Africa is only slightly larger than that of Europe, and the current total population of Europe is more than 400 million, which means that the population density of East Africa is about one-fourth of that of Europe.
The population density in Europe is already relatively high in the world, just below the Far East and South Asia, especially in Western Europe, where there are almost large countries with a population of over 10 million. Even small countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, and Denmark can easily exceed 1 million and move towards a scale of 10 million, but this has already made Europe's resources very tight, otherwise it would not be possible to have a war.
So from this perspective, East Africa has initially gotten rid of the dilemma of vast land and sparse population in terms of population size, and with the development strategy of long-term planned economy, it has further promoted the development of East Africa's national region.
After all, through administrative means, even potatoes can be dug in the bitter cold land of Siberia, and it is not surprising that East Africa has developed the Congo rainforest and the southwestern desert through various means.
Of course, the cities in East Africa are basically distributed on the periphery of the Congo rainforest, and the deep rainforest is basically not involved, but compared with the almost completely undeveloped Amazon rainforest, it is already quite rare.
In fact, the main restriction on East Africa's development of the Congo rainforest is agriculture. The land in the Congo rainforest is the poorest in East Africa, and the grain yield is extremely poor.
However, food crops are obviously not the focus of the Congo rainforest in East Africa, but rather tropical cash crops such as rubber, fruits, and trees.
In short, there are indeed many unexplored places in East Africa, but they basically have no special features and are definitely not a paradise for adventurers. There are actually many such places in Europe, not to mention East Africa, so this has greatly dampened the desire of European adventurers to explore East Africa.