Cultural Geography and Human Geography

Most Visited National Parks: Refer to this list to learn information about the ten most visited national parks in the United States.

Refer to this article to learn information about the ten least visited national parks in the U.S.

Learn all about Carnival, which takes place before Lent and is a time of celebration, parades, and parties! Find out about Carnival in Rio de Janeiro and Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Carnival around the world.

Discover the African-American community of Gullah or Geechee in the South Carolina and Georgia region of the United States.

An overview of the impacts of the Black Death on the global population and how it spread in the fourteenth century.

A listing of the FIFA World Cup Host Countries from 1930 to 2022.

Geography of Disney Parks and Resorts: Read this article to learn about Disney theme parks and resorts all over the world from Geography at About.com.

Languages of the European Union: Refer to this list to learn the 23 official languages spoken in the European Union.

A simple overview of the concept of the Nine Nations of North America, based on the book of the same title by Joel Garreau.

Learn all about rangeland, its management, and how it is used for grazing, from the About.com expert Geography GuideSite.

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.

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 is one of the major branches of geography. Learn all about cultural geography through this overview.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All about the international language known as Esperanto, invented in 1887 by Polish physician L.L. Zamenhof.

Explore the geography of agriculture from the domestication of plants and animals to commercial agriculture, from your About.com Guide to Geography.

An overview of national parks in the United States and around the world.

This essay covers a topic that is very geographical and interesting, too! In mapping the distribution of professional sports, we yield fascinating results.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cultural geography focuses on important locations of world religions. There are not many sites more important than Mecca.

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.

Learn about the culture of the Sherpa of the Himalaya and Nepal, from your About.com Guide to Geography.

A look at the Iditarod, the great race in Alaska. Includes an overview and history of the Iditarod rade.

Learn all about spatial interation, the flow of products, people, services, or information among places, in response to localized supply and demand.

As the summer months roll by people all over the world look for different travel destinations. Summer vacation spots range from exotic locales such as Africa to the more budget-friendly family trip to the beach or national park. After researching numberous travel websites, the same ten locations kept coming up as popular summer destinations. ...

An overview of the history and international work of the World Health Organization, an arm of the United Nations.

A thorough overview of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, an institution that promotes global travel and tourism.