Ireland industry Wales Scotland o This is a rocky wet land of small farms the remnants of Gaelic speech and culture and a heritage of migration to America and England o Capital is Belfast of catholics o Capital of the Protestant Area is Dublin the chief center of commerce and o is a block of old hard rocks forming a plateau rising to 2000 feet o Cardiff is the national capital o Their wildness and history attract tourists o This contains pockets of coal and the declining port of Glasgow and the capital Edinburgh Englands Lake District o a circular dome of granite with radial drainage impeded to form finger lakes The Pennines England s backbone is a broad ridge of limestone and sandstone running from the Tyne Gap in the north to the Peak District overlooking the West Midlands in the south separating Yorkshire from Lancashire o Manchester the commercial center of the region o Liverpool the port of the cotton trade o Blackpool is the seaside resort par excellence o The regional capital Newcastle on Tyne stands out with a modicum of prosperity o Sheffield has a long tradition of making cutlery and special steels o The southern part of the coalfield around Nottingham is the most productive coalfield in Britain o Burton is the brewing capital o Stoke on Trent is the center of the Potteries London o Lies in the lower Thames Valley o biggest agglomeration of people structures and in all of Europe o on the river thames o CAPITAL OF ENGLAND The southeast of England is the Weald o with the chalk escarpments of the North and South Downs looking in on a clay vale and a wooded standstone ridge o On the coast is the ferry port of Dover o Resort and dormitory town of Brighton o Commanding a gap in the North Downs on the road to Dover stands Canterbury and its cathedral The Hampshire Basin to the south focuses on the port of the Southampton and the naval base of Portsmouth Bristol o The port and gateway to the west The tin mining industry of Cornwall is now defunct leaving horticulture and tourism as income sources The Channel Islands Denmark o Jersey Alderney and Guernsey are off the coast of Normandy o Is divided in two by a low backbone of a terminal moraine the Baltic heights o The west of the peninsula of Jutland Jylland is sandy glacial outwash o Since the chief market was Britain in 1868 a new seaport was laid out on the west coast Esbjerg the chief fishing port industry of global significance o Aalborg which spawned ferro concrete technology and a civil engineering o Bornholm there is an exposure of granite which has weathered to yield kaolin which is the basis of the Royal Danish porcelain industry o Copenhagen K benhavn on the island of Zeeland Sjaelland started as a In 1167 a bishop built the castle of Christianborg commanded a choke point between the north sea and he Baltic It is the commercial political and cultural capital and the home of fishing village on the Sound Merchants harbor Capital of Denmark Carlsberg and Tuborg Seat of the first university completed In 2000 there was a 10 mile bridge across the Sound to Malm The folks of Malm think of themselves historically as Danes which they were until 1660 The Danes do not accept this Sweden profession o Sk ne lowlands are primary agricultural area o Malm is the chief commercial and industrial center being Sweden s third largest city with a major university and a significant immigrant population o South Swedish Highlands Sm land at the southern end of Lake V ttern is the home of IKEA The town of J nk ping is where the safety match was invented but is now best known for Huskvarna chain saws and sewing machines Swedish glass industry at Kosta These highlands were for long the buffer between Danes and Swedes o Uppsala o Stockholm Center of Viking Sweden The church vested this with a bishop a cathedral and a university Is where biology was founded by Linneus The center of communications and industry producing food electrical and electronics appliances Grew along the shores of the lake and on 20 islands Kist a new town built in 1973 on the way to the airport houses Ericssons accounting for 1 3 of Sweden s jobs in electronics o Gothenburg Gustavus Adolphus founded a city at the western end of the lowlands to open Sweden to the emerging Atlantic economy On the Kattegat and is Sweden s busiest port and second city The home of Volvo Saab and SKF producing nearly 1 5 of the world s ball bearings o Norrland o Finland is a vast region of hard rocks with a thin veneer of morainic soil clothed in a dense stand of spruce and pine lying north of Bergslagen It accounts for 2 3 of Sweden but only 1 5 of the population Invaded by Sweden and given the name Finland o Turku The Swedish capital Turku was also the seat of the first university and center of commerce and culture o Helsinki was made the capital by the Russians Chief Port and Industrial Center Home to Nokia major employer o Tampere is an industrial center using hydroelectric power to produce cotton textiles metals and engineering products a terminal moraine which became the economic social and cultural line of cleavage Finland must import most of its energy o Salpausselk o Norway The Finnmark plateau is part of the curve of uplands that form Norway with a sharp edge dropping to the Atlantic Home to the Sami People hunting and hearding o Narvik is the chief fishing port composed of fjords Norway does have the longest and most striking coast in the world Where Norway bulges west from its narrow northern strip there is a large fjord that breaks through into the heart of a rolling lowland with a warmer climate This is Tr ndelag the historical heart of Viking Norway o Trondheim was the residence of the Viking king and the resting place of St Olav Norway s patron saint Every king must be crowned in St Olav s cathedral New Trondheim is only the third city o Oslo Is the capital The main transport hub and home port of the merchant marine o Iceland Capital Reykyavik Glacier lava field and arctic desert Keyflavik Sheep grazing and dairy cattle US Airbase