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In world systems theory, the periphery countries (sometimes referred to as just the periphery) are those that are less developed than the semi-periphery and core countries. These countries usually receive a disproportionately small share of global wealth.
- Canadian Shield. With an area close to 5 million km2, the Canadian Shield covers 48 per cent of Canada's land surface (including freshwater lakes and Arctic islands).
- Western Cordillera. The Western Cordillera is about 800 km wide and extends from southern British Columbia north to the Yukon and the Beaufort Sea. While most of the Western Cordillera lies within these regions it also extends into southwestern Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
- Canadian Arctic. Canada's Arctic is located north of the Arctic Circle and comprises 2.1 million km2 (21 per cent of the country’s land area). The Arctic is Canada’s most complex physiographic region, in part because it overlaps with other regions, namely the Canadian Shield, Western Cordillera and Interior Plains.
- Appalachian Region. The Appalachian Region is 360,000 km2 or about 3.6 per cent of Canada's land surface. It lies between the St. Lawrence Lowlands to the northwest and the Atlantic Continental Shelf to the east and southeast.
May 11, 2024 · Eastern Hemisphere, part of Earth east of the Atlantic Ocean and west of North and South America. It includes Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Longitudes 20° W and 160° E are often considered its boundaries.
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The eastern periphery of the Tibetan Plateau (EPTP), located at the area of 29.8°N–31.5°N, 102.6°E–104.5°E (Fig. 1 a), acts as a transition zone of the Indian monsoon and the East Asian monsoon, and it is bordered by the Tibetan Plateau (TP) to the west and the Sichuan Basin to the east.
Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic provinces (French: provinces de l'Atlantique), is the region of Eastern Canada comprising the provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec. The four provinces are New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
The Eastern Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth which is east of the prime meridian (which crosses Greenwich, London, United Kingdom) and west of the antimeridian (which crosses the Pacific Ocean and relatively little land from pole to pole).
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In parallel, the relocation of economic activity (industrial production and services) within the EU territory, from western-core countries to the eastern periphery, raised the competitiveness and economic significance of many areas in the new, vis-a-vis the old, periphery, leading to the emergence of a number of new centres in its metropolitan r...
