The graph below shows the number of overseas visitors to three different areas of a European country between 1987 and 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make a comparison where relevant.

The line graph illustrates overseas visitors to three sites in Europe namely, the coast, the mountains and the lakes from 1987 to 2007.

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, it is clearly seen that there was a moderate increase in both the coast and the lake,

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; the lakes remained steady. Turning to the graph, it is obvious that the number of overseas visitors in the lake areas a dramatic rise over the two first areas reaching 10 to a peak of 70 from 1987 to 2002. Unfortunately, the

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year, there was a sharp decline to 50.

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, in the first two years, overseas visitor numbers in coast sites decreased slowly to 5.

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, we observe from the data that there was a sharply upward trend over periods starting at 35 and reaching a peak of 75. looking in more detail, in the mountains, especially between 1987 to 1997 the overseas visitors slightly increased by approximately 10, and next two years, the line was no change and recorded at 30. The

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notable point is that there was a slow increase of 5 in the

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year.