To “Banana Azul” gives Europe
What if the most populous region of the European continent were… a banana? So it shows us a fun map. In this area of Europe there are over 100 million inhabitants. But Paris is out.
The Blue Banana was created in 1989 by a team of French geographers called Roger, led by Roger Brunet, says the
The name comes from its own form, which resembles a boomerang, or a banana. Thus observed the Minister of the French government Jacques Chérèque, and the name was. “Blue Banana” currently has about 111 million inhabitants.
In addition to representing a large population corridor, this map also encompasses great foci of economic power gives Europe. The goal was to highlight the idea of a “Dorsal Axis” of Western Europea metropolitan economic corridor that stretched from northern England to northern Italy.
E Paristhe great metropolis of Western Europe, is left out. Why? With a metropolitan area with AMIS of 13 million, this city is excluded from this model due to the fact that, according to the creators, Paris had become back to Europe.
The objective of the map was, argued, to promote a European economic integrationbut believed that France had lost its connection with the rest of Europeespecially since the expulsion of the Huguenots. It was therefore a kind of geographical “revenge”: Paris is out of the blue banana.
But there are other fun “bananas”: some of the areas that are compared to the blue banana include regions throughout the Mediterranean coastbetween Genoa and Valencia, known as the golden banana or the European Sunbelt.
Another similar region is in the northern Germanystarting in North Sea Costapassing through Denmark and ending in southern Scandinavia.
