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Cultural 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.
Geography of National Parks
An overview of national parks in the United States and around the world.
Spatial Interaction
Learn all about spatial interation, the flow of products, people, services, or information among places, in response to localized supply and demand.
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.
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.
Esperanto
All about the international language known as Esperanto, invented in 1887 by Polish physician L.L. Zamenhof.
Geography of Agriculture
Agriculture is the most important industry worldwide for without food we can't do much. Learn about this important topic.
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.
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.
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.
Mecca
Cultural geography focuses on important locations of world religions. There are not many sites more important than Mecca.
Sherpa
Learn about the culture of the Sherpa of the Himalaya and Nepal, 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.
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.

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