Why settlements decrease in size

Populations in urban settlements with more than 2, inhabitants have grown by 7. Population growth is unequally distributed within and between the various Nordic countries. In Sweden, functional urban areas have, however, grown less in relation to the other countries and to urban settlements with 2, inhabitants. This means they need a higher number of people to support them and make them profitable, therefore they will only be found in larger settlements.

It also means that there are fewer big department stores than small newsagents. The range of a service or product is the maximum distance people are prepared to travel to purchase it.

The range of a newspaper is much lower than an item of furniture for example. Settlement hierarchies If we group and classify a number of settlements according to their size and shape, the result is settlement hierarchy. Journal Article. Lookup at Google Scholar. Petrovich, Eh. Tendencies in the change of number and structure of rural population depending on the size of rural settlements, on the examples of Gorki district of Mogilev region are shown.

Results of research of dynamics of intensity of outflow of the population from Gorki district are presented. The structure of rural settlements in Mogilev region on number of inhabitants and a share of the population living in them is shown.

Groupings of rural settlements in Gorki region on average annual population in , and are investigated.