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The Golden Banana or Sun Belt is an area of higher population density lying between Cartagena in the west and Genoa in the east along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
The area runs along the Mediterranean coast, including the French cities of Nice, Marseille, Montpellier, and Perpignan, and the Spanish cities of Figueres, Barcelona and Valencia.See also: John Loughlin "Europe of the Regions" and the Federalization of Europe" (1996) 26 (4): pp 141. It was defined by the "Europe 2000" report from the European Commission in 1995 similarly to the Blue Banana.
The golden banana has development axes extending into the area of the upper Adriatic around Trieste. This also relates to the trade flows of the maritime Silk Road or the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative and its developments to Central Europe.Elaboration of a longterm polycentric vision of the European Space. Economie et aménagement. Paris: DATAR (2000).Marcus Hernig: Die Renaissance der Seidenstraße (2018), p 112.Wolf D. Hartmann, Wolfgang Maennig, Run Wang: Chinas neue Seidenstraße. Frankfurt am Main 2017, p 59With regard to economic changes: cf. also: Hospers, Gert-Jan "Beyond the blue banana? Structural change in Europe´s geo-economy." 2002. Infoblatt Wirtschaftsräume in Europa (German)Diercke "Europa - Wirtschaftliche Raummodelle", 2015 - ISBN 978-3-14-100800-5, p 99. Europa Wirtschaftliche Raummodelle (German)
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