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Cultural Geography and Human Geography

Cultural geography, also known as human geography, covers a wide swath of human interaction with the land. Cultural geography includes language, religion, medicine, cities, economics, entertainment, and much more.
Rangeland
Learn all about rangeland, its management, and how it is used for grazing, from the About.com expert Geography GuideSite.
Human Geography
Human geography is one of the major branches of geography. Learn all about human geography through this overview from the expert About.com Geography GuideSite.
World Heritage Sites
An overview of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites and the world heritage program to preserve cultural sites around the world. An overview of the World Heritage Sites and program from the About.com expert Geography GuideSite.
Cultural Geography - An Overview of Cultural Geography
Cultural geography is one of the major branches of geography. Learn all about cultural geography through this overview.
Bermuda Triangle
For over thirty years, the Bermuda Triangle has been popularly known for supposedly paranormal disappearances of boats and aircraft. This imaginary triangle, also known as "Devil's Triangle," has its three points at Miami, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda. Find out more about this mysterious area.
Bollywood
Movies from Bollywood in India are sweeping the world. Discover more about the huge film industry in India that has made Bollywood so popular worldwide.
Culture Hearths and Cultural Diffusion
A discussion of the sources of culture (culture hearths), the regions of culture (culture regions), and the spread of culture (cultural diffusion) around the world, from the About.com Geography site.
Demographic Transition
The demographic transition model seeks to explain the transformation of countries from having high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates. In developed countries this transition began in the eighteenth century and continues today. Less developed countries began the transition later and are still in the midst of earlier stages of the model.
Environmental Determinism - The Controversy of Environmental …
An overview of the topic of environmental determinism, a controversial and often considered a racist topic that explained why people are the way they are based on their geographic surroundings.
Esperanto
All about the international language known as Esperanto, invented in 1887 by Polish physician L.L. Zamenhof.
Geography of Agriculture - An Overview of Agricultural Geography
Explore the geography of agriculture from the domestication of plants and animals to commercial agriculture, from your About.com Guide to Geography.
Geography of National Parks
An overview of national parks in the United States and around the world.
Geography of Pro Sports in America
This essay covers a topic that is very geographical and interesting, too! In mapping the distribution of professional sports, we yield fascinating results.
Geography of Sex
A bounty of facts and figures about sex around the world and in many countries - ranging from an increase in breast size to the frequency of sex to the age of first sexual intercourse. This article is intended for mature audiences only.
Geophagy - Eating Dirt
There's no way to get closer to our planet than to eat it. Learn about the topic of geophagy, which literally means "eating dirt."
Largest Shopping Malls
The largest shopping mall in the world, West Edmonton Mall, and the largest shopping mall in the United States, the Mall of America, each have an Internet site devoted to entice visitors to travel there. Additionally, both malls offer vacation packages for prospective tourists.
Lingua Franca - An Overview of Lingua Franca and Pidgins
An overview of languages known as lingua franca, pidgins, and creole. Learn about the development of languages as lingua france and the use of English as a worldwide lingua france.
Map Stops Cholera
This famous example of medical geography is the foundation of the discipline of epidemiology. Geographers and others use maps to map disease and to thus find cures and solutions to medical issues.
Matt's Eastern European Vacation
In 1998, my wife and I took a tour through Eastern Europe, visiting Prague, Warsaw, Krakow, and Budapest. Here are a few of my geographical observations.
Mecca
Cultural geography focuses on important locations of world religions. There are not many sites more important than Mecca.
Medical Geography - An Overview and History of Medical Geography
A comprehensive overview of the subdiscipline of medical geography, including its history from ancient times to the present day and information about the latest in medical geography mapping.
Sherpa - The Sherpa People
Learn about the culture of the Sherpa of the Himalaya and Nepal, from your About.com Guide to Geography.
Spatial Interaction
Learn all about spatial interation, the flow of products, people, services, or information among places, in response to localized supply and demand.
The Iditarod - A History and Overview of The Iditarod Race
A look at the Iditarod, the great race in Alaska. Includes an overview and history of the Iditarod rade.

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