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7 Billion of Us in 2011_National Geographic Magazine 1/2011 21 images Created 4 Apr 2021

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  • Crowds at the Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai flow between the trains. By 2030 it is estimated that 60% (4.9 billion) worldwide will live in cities.
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  • Aerial photo shows rows of identical houses in Huaxi Village, once known as the richest village in China. It is emblematic of the beginning of the massive urbanization of China and the largest human migration in history from the rural areas into the cities. <br />
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It was a honored as a model of socialist economy. Established in 1961, collective investment efforts boomed in 1998 launching steel, iron and textile industries that by 2003, profited over USD 1.2 billion. One third of the profits come from the steel industry. In recent years, the company has shown it's first-ever loss. <br />
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Workers didn't migrate away because their model rural farm, instead, changed into a modern industrial city. The former Farmer’s Village has free health care and education, identical villas with red tile roofs, landscaped lawns and two car garages but there is no entertainment, and residents cannot move and take their wealth with them.<br />
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When they first started factories, they worked in secret with no windows. When government officials came to inspect, they sent all the workers out to the fields and disguised the factories.
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  • When the Kara tribe hear engine noise, they race over the hill from their village and down the dusty trail to greet one of the few boats on the Omo River.
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  • Kolkata's streets are crammed with vendors, pedestrians, and taxis. It is the primary business, commercial and financial hub of Eastern India with a population of over 14 million in a 2011 census count.
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  • A Ratha Yatra religious festival where a million devotees crowd the streets in the temple town of Puri.
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  • An estimate 100,000 flamingos feed on Lake Turkana on Central Island in Sibiloi National Park.  Although the alkaline lake is not suitable for many wildlife species, flamingos thrive feeding on the blue-green algae that thrives in the salty environment of a crater.
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  • The rapid growth of cities like Kolkata can be attributed largely to rural-urban migration. A large group of "Untouchables" bath in former British horse watering trough in Kolkata, Bengal State, India. <br />
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More than 160 million people in India are Dalit or Untouchables who are tainted by their birth inso a caste system that deems them impure. They are relegated to the lowest jobs and live in fear of being publicly humiliated, beaten, and raped by upper castes seeking to keep them in their place. <br />
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They are not allowed to drink from the same wells, attend the same temples or wear shoes in the presence of an upper cast according to a Human Rights Watch senior researcher.
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  • Men leading camels walk among trucks and SUVs to a celebration of Bedouin culture held in the United Arab Emirates. The first Camel Beauty contest was in March of 2007 at the edge of the Empty Quarter.  About an hour outside of Abu Dhabi, the Al Dhafra Festival put on by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage is under the patronage of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
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  • Immigrant Indian women draped in dupattas crowd a street at a Sikh festival in Ramblas Catalunya in Barcelona.
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  • A Ratha Yatra religious festival where a million devotees crowd the streets in the sacred town of Puri. The colorful Jagannath Temple was built in the 11th century by King Indradyumna.
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  • A child holds a microphone at a morning assembly at a public school surrounded by other school children and war orphans.<br />
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Half of Uganda is under the age of 15. <br />
The average African woman has nearly 4.5 children (and over 6 in four countries). One consequence of Africa’s high fertility is that a preponderance of its population is young. Twenty-seven percent of the world’s population is under age 15, but in Africa, the figure is 40 percent according to David Bloom, chairman of the department of global health and population at Harvard.
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  • Easter Procession in the town of Orosei on the island of Sardinia creates an intense religious atmosphere.
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  • Streets crowded with rickshaws in the pilgrimage city of Varanasi.
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  • Pilgrims and local people bathe in the sacred Ganges River.
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  • People bathing in the sacred Ganges River in Varanasi.
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  • Indian Muslims at the call to prayer on the roof of a Kolkata mosque.
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  • Crawfish Farms in Louisiana are a major draw for migratory birds.
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  • Rickshaws, bicycles and motorcycles crowd the streets in Varanasi.
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  • Overview of Kampala Uganda.
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  • Rose Wedding Festival couples in a motorcade to Century Park. Seventy couples participated in a mass marriage event that started at a shopping mall and ended up in Century Park for the ceremony.
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  • The Dharavi slum area of Mumbai.
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