INTRODUCTION: THE EUROPEAN UNION 1

PART I SYSTEMATIC SURVEY

CHAPTER 1 PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS

CHAPTER 2 CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY 38

CHAPTER 3 POPULATION, DISTRIBUTION, DENSITY, MIGRATION AND AGING 63

CHAPTER 4 RURAL AND URBAN SETTLEMENTS 86

CHAPTER 5 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY: AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRY, AND SERVICES 128

CHAPTER 6 POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY 158

PART II THE CORE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

CHAPTER 7 FRANCE AND THE BENELUX COUNTRIES 199

CHAPTER 8 GERMANY AND ITALY 236

PART III ENLARGEMENT OF EU

CHAPTER 9 DENMARK, IRELAND, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM 277

CHAPTER 10 SOUTHERN EUROPE: GREECE, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL 319

CHAPTER 11 AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND, SWEDEN, NORWAY, ICELAND, AND FINLAND 345

PART IV ENLARGEMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

CHAPTER 12 EASTWARD EXPANSION 2004: THE BALTICS, POLAND, THE CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA, HUNGARY, AND SLOVENIA 387

CHAPTER 13 EASTWARD EXPANSION 2007: THE BALKANS 426

PART V REGIONAL SURVEY: RUSSIA AND FORMER SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

CHAPTER 14 BELARUS, THE UKRAINE, MOLDOVA, GEORGIA, AND RUSSIA 457

PART VI THE MEDITERRANEAN FRINGE

CHAPTER 15 TURKEY, CYPRUS, MALTA, AND GIBRALTAR 499

CHAPTER 16 THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE WIDER WORLD 529

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