Big cities

What do you call the reasons why people leave rural areas because they are not good anymore?

• Push factors

• Pull factors

• Migration

Name some pull factors?

• Many jobs

• Natural disasters

• Better educational opportunities

• Poor healthcare

Poor people usually do not live in the big skyscrapers. They live in small huts. These communities are known to us as ...

The best known and largest of these settlements is called...

• Dharavi

• Dheli

• Dharaviravi

Why people move to Dharavi even though it is a slum?

• Dharavi is the economic centre of Mumbai's small business.

• They want to save money and move into a penthouse later.

But there is also a beautiful side to the big cities. Can you tell which city is shown here?

• Mumbai

• Shanghai

• Hong Kong

Shanghai has an ideal location because it is situated at the mouth of the .......... River which connects Shanghai with central China

It is the centre of the Chinese ........... industry and the place of the Chinese stock exchange (Börse)

Reasons why Shanghai become a boomtown.

• Ideal location at the middle of China

• Cheap land

• Low production costs

The Shanghai skyline looks great when the weather is nice. However, when you are a tourist in Shanghai you might often be disappointed. On many days you can hardly see the skyline and the reason is: