Mr Go reckons that urbanisation could be as low as 25%, based on data from the Global Rural Urban Mapping Project, a global population map.

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Turkey fears that Iraqi Kurds, who set up an autonomous administration in northern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf war, might use the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime as a pretext for setting up a Kurdish state, thereby encouraging similar sentiments among Turkey's extensive Kurdish population (see map).

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It is rolling out here where there is wealth of online map resources and a population quite savvy in the use of online maps.

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