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- The largest geographic units into which the inhabited world can be
divided
- Based on both physical (natural) and human (cultural) yardsticks
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- The result of the interaction between human societies and natural
environments
- A functional interaction
- Revealed by farms, mines, fishing ports, transport routes, dams,
bridges, villages, and other features on the landscape
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- Represent the most comprehensive and encompassing definition of the
great clusters of humankind in the world today
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- An area of spatial change where peripheries of two adjacent realms or
regions join
- Marked by a gradual shift (rather than a sharp break) in the
characteristics that distinguish neighboring realms
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- Areas of the earth’s surface marked by certain properties
- Scientific devices that enable us to make spatial generalizations
- Based on criteria we establish
- Criteria can be:
- Human (cultural) properties
- Physical (natural) characteristics
- or Both
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- Marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena
- Also called a uniform region or homogeneous region
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- A region marked less by its sameness than its dynamic internal structure
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- Literally means “country behind”
- A term that applies to a surrounding area served by an urban center
- Urban center is the focus of goods and services produced in the
hinterland, and is the latter’s dominant focal point as well
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