Geographical analysis

Abstract

Abstract The number of people that live in agiven geographic region depends on the locational advantages and fertility, mortality and mobility factors. Population growth is the increase in the number of individuals in a population of a region, and the trend refers to changes over time including changes in ranging behaviour.Gadag-Betageri is a twin city system in North Karnataka and characterized by dryland conditions.However the twin city-system has been emerged as one of the important commercial centre in this area and attracting the people of the surrounding areas for its diversed complex economic activities. The main objective of this paper is to analyse the ranging behaviour of the population of the Gadag-Betageri twin-cities over the time and its recent density.The researchers have made an attempt to analyse the population ranging behaviour by considering the decadal population ranging behaviour by considering the decadal population data.

Keywords: Population, Density.