| Region
| General Information
| Major cities
| Major Industries
| Agriculture
|
| the South
the Midlands
| located from Bristol Channel to the Wash
Industrial South
Agricultural South
South West, East and South East
- known as Black Country because of the mass industrialization
- located in the centre of GB
| London
Greater London
(London + satellite towns)
Dagenham
(Ford motor-works)
the City of London
(British business center)
Oxford & Cambridge
Luton
the Thames Valley
(the Sunrise Strip)
Bristol (port)
Plymouth
 Southampton
Portsmouth
 Brighton
Bournemouth
Birmingham
(“makes everything from a pin to a steam roller”)
Coventry
Wolverhampton
 Leicester
Nottingham
Derby
Stroke-upon-Trent
(“the Potteries”)
|
clothing, furniture making, jewellery, oil-refining, steel-making, electrical engineering, aircraft production, electronics, motor-car manufacturing;
service industries: banking, insurance, scientific research, etc.
educational centers, electronics and printing;
car production and engineering;
high-tech center;
manufacture of tobacco & chocolate; center of aircraft & automobile industry, defense industry;
naval base;
transatlantic ports;
seaside resorts (service industry)
commuters area;
manufacturing of sporting guns, consumer goods, food (chocolate);
motor industry;
heavy engineering,
tyre production;
knitwear industry, production of knitting machines;
railway engineering; aircraft engineering (the Rolls Roys factory = aircraft engines);
pottery & ceramics
| South West
livestock & dairy farming
South East & East
arable farming (mainly cereals like wheat and barley)
East Anglia (region)
market gardening
the Fens (region)
fruit growing
is mainly based on dairy & livestock farming, growing vegetables, gardening
|
| Lancashire
| - to the North of the Midlands
- historic centre of British industry;
- the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution
| Merseyside
Liverpool
“Greater” Manchester
Blackpool
|
chemical, motor car industries;
shipbuilding & ship-repairing (e.g. Birkenhead industries);
general engineering;
seaside resort (service industries);
| less developed in this region
|
| Yorkshire
| located to the East of the Pennine Chain
| Sheffield
Leeds
Bradford
York
Scarborough
Scunthorpe
(leading steel-making center)
 Immingham
Grimsby
Hull
| steel & cutlery production;
clothing, engineering;
worsted & woolen manufacture;
tourism
holiday resort;
iron & steel industry;
sea ports;
| It’s represented chiefly by sheep-breeding.
|
| the North
Wales
| - industrial area, but some major industries are mainly in decline;
- 2 major centers:
a) North-East (estuaries of the Tyne, the Tees, the Wear)
b) North-West (Cumberland)
The South is the main industrial area;
The North-West is a mountainous region and the industrialization had little effect;
| North-East
Newcastle-upon- Tyne
(“to bring coal to Newcastle”)
Sunderland
Teeside
North-West
Workigton
Whitehaven
Barrow-in- Furness
Cardiff
Swansea
Newport
Milford Haven
Snowdonia district
|
coalmining, steel-making, shipbuilding (are in decline)
electrical engineering, construction for the North Sea oil production;
chemical industry;
shipbuilding
main business center;
coalmining & steel industry (in decline)
main port, oil refining;
tourism
| chiefly sheep-breeding & beef livestock farming
is represented by sheep-breeding in the Snowdonia region
|
| Scotland
| The Central Lowlands are the industrial heart of Scotland.
The Highlands
The Southern Uplands
(mainly agriculture)
| Glasgo
(the most important area of the industrial activity)
Grangemouth
Edinburgh
(“the Athens of the North”)
Aberdeen
| seaport;
coalmining, shipbuilding (are in decline);
textile & clothing production;
service industry; manufacture of foodstuffs & furniture;
electronics;
sea port, oil refineries, petrochemical industry;
tourism, textile industry, brewing, paper production, printing & publishing;
oil refining; fishing industry
| The Southern Uplands
dairy farming, beef cattle breeding, arable farming (growing barley, oats, wheat), sheep-breeding;
|
| Northern Ireland
| is a unique region because of the number of economic problems and political division.
3 main activities:
farming
shipbuilding
textile industry
| Belfast
Londonderry
| textile & fiber manufacture, clothing & footwear production, shipbuilding (“Harland & Wolf”), aircraft & aerospace production (“Short Brothers”), electric engineering, food processing, tourism;
textile manufacture
| is represented by mixed & dairy farming
|
3. Transition to service economy
4. Structure of economy
6. Business
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