Articles Index

Lingua Franca
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.

Environmental Determinism
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.

Offset Time Zones
Offset time zones are time zones that are a half-hour or even fifteen minutes off of nearby standard time zones.

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.

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.

An Overview of Cultural Geography
Cultural geography is one of the major branches of geography. Learn all about cultural geography through this overview.

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

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.

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

Most Popular Languages
A listing of the ten most popular world languages and the number of speakers for each language.

Large Shopping Malls
Learn about largest shopping malls in North America, West Edmonton Mall, and the largest shopping mall in the United States, the Mall of America.

Sherpa
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.

Gregorian Calendar
While Julius Caesar's Julian calendar proved useful, it was inaccurate. Learn all about the change to the Gregorian calendar of 1582, from your About.com Guide to Geography.

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.

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.

Most Popular World Religions
A list of the most popular religions in the world, along with the number of adherents.

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.

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.