South+Africa+Joe+Steinhardt

= = Both of the two cities I’m researching are interesting. San Francisco is the 12th literacy rated city in America. Johannesburg is known for its mining companies based there. Johannesburg is the biggest city on Earth that was not built on a body of water. Both cities have a high poverty rate too. = =

= = There are problems in both of the two cities. A big problem faced in Johannesburg is the HIV/AIDS rate there. Also, another problem in Johannesburg is genocide and poverty. A problem in San Francisco is the unemployment rate. Many people in San Francisco do not have jobs. There are way worse problems in Johannesburg. = =

= = A similarities of the two cities is English is the most spoken language at both of the two cities. They are both known for their mining at one time or another. They also almost have the same precipitation at around 25 inches. = =

= = There are many differences of the two cities. San Francisco’s technology rate is a lot higher than Johannesburg’s is. Unlike San Francisco, Johannesburg’s houses are made out of scrap metal. The climates in the two cities are very different, because there elevations of the two cities are very different. = =

= = The two cities are different and the same in their own ways. For example San Francisco is the same precipitation as Johannesburg, or that there houses are made of different things in the two cities. Another example is that Johannesburg elevation is a lot higher than San Francisco’s. = = =The California Flag = =The South Africa Flag= =** Lo **** c **** ation **= San Francisco is 37° north and 122° west. San Francisco is on the west coast in the middle of Calafornia on the Pacific Ocean.
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Johannesburg is 26 degrees south and 28 degrees east. Johannesburg is on the right upper of South Africa. Which is at the bottom of Africa. = = = Movement = The elevation of San Francisco is 0-925 ft. The movement of the mini goods in San Francisco is by trains, planes, and semi-trucks. The movement of people is by buses, trollies,bikes, taxis, and subway/metro trains. San Francisco's ideas travel through email, textring, phone calls, and letters. Its internet access persentage is 72% and internet use is 81.4%. San Francisco is 12th literacy rated city in America. San Francisco used to be 5th.
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The elevation of Johannesburg is 5,751 ft. Johannesburg's goods are moved by trains there and planes going in and out of Johannesburg. There goods are things they mine for there. People travel by plane, bus, and taxis. 5 million out of the 43.9 million people have interet. That is around 10% of its population. The literacy rate in Johannesburg is 81.8%. The amount of people with tv is 59.2%.
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=San Francisco= San Francisco gets 23 inches of precipitation. San Francisco's area in miles is 46.9 miles squared. = = =Johannesburg= Johannesburg gets 28 inches of precipitation a year and is 50.6 miles squared.

= Place =

San Francisco San Francisco was settled in March 28, 1776 by the spanish. The top three languages are english, spanish, and russian. The Golden Gate Bridge was built from Jan 5, 1933 til April 19, 1937. Demin jeans were created during the gold rush in San Francisco. Irish coffee was created in San Francisco. The fortune cookie was created in SAn Francisco too. Johannesburg It was settled in 1886 and was ruled by Pretoria. The top three languages spoke are english, zulu, and afikaan. Johannesburg is the world's largest city not built on a based on water.In Johannesburg there is a theme park called "Gold Reef City".There was a huge gold rush in Johannesburg and that's what brought everybody to Johannesburg.

= Human Enviroment Interaction = San Francisco The houses in San Francisco are very skinny and long because of the rain they get ,so it runs off there roofs, so they don't collapse. There is an average if 2.14 people per house. The activities in San Francisco are football(49ers), baseball(Giants), and basketball(Golden State Warriors). People also go to San Francisco to visit Alcatraz and The Golden Gate Bridge.

Johannnesburg The houses in Johannesburg are very small and are usually made out of scrap metal and are very close together. Some activities are soccer, rugby, and cricket. For both cities I used google/bing, wikipedia, wiki answers, press reference, city-data, cia.gov, and fact monster.
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