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Geography (Greek Geo (γη) or Gaea (γαία), meaning "Earth", and graphein (γράφειν) meaning "to describe" or "to write") is the study of the earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes (275-195 B.C.). Four historical traditions in geographical research are the spatial analysis of natural and human phenomena (geography as a study of distribution), area studies (places and regions), study of man-land relationship, and research in earth sciences. Nonetheless, modern geography is an all-encompassing discipline that foremost seeks to understand the world and all of its human and natural complexities — not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be. As "the bridge between the human and physical sciences," geography is divided into two main branches — human geography and physical geography.

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Main articles: Earth, Geography and Place

Geography – Atlas • City • Climate • Demographics • Earth • Exploration • Geographic information system • History of geography • Map • Park • Place • Population density • Region • Spatial analysis • Subregion • Surveying

Branches of Geography – Physical geography • Human geography • Technical geography

Natural geographical features

Landforms – Badlands • Canyon • Cave • Cliff • Coast • Continent • Coral reef • Crater • Desert • Forest • Geyser • Glacier • Gully • Grassland • Highland • Hill • Island • Mesa • Mountain • Mountain range • Plain • Prairie • Peninsula • Reef • Ridge • Savanna • Shoal • Steppe • Tundra • Valley • Volcano • Wetland

Bodies of water – Bay • Channel • Delta • Estuary • Fjord • Headlands • Lagoon • Lake • Marsh • Ocean • Pond • River • Sea • Sound • Source (river or stream) • Spring (hydrosphere) • Strait • Stream • Swamp • Waterfall

Manmade geographical features – Airport • Artificial dwelling hill • Artificial island • Breakwater • Bridge • Canal • Causeway • Country • Country subdivision • Dam (Levee) • Farm • Harbor • Nation • National park • Nature reserve • Park • Pier • Pipeline • Port • Railway • Ranch • Reservoir • Road (Street) • Settlement (Village, Town, City, Megalopolis) • Train station • Tunnel

The World

By hemisphere – New World • Old World | Eastern world • Western world | Eastern Hemisphere • Western Hemisphere | Northern Hemisphere • Southern Hemisphere

By cultural region – English-speaking world • Arab world • Chinese world (Sinosphere) • Indosphere • Sub-Saharan Africa • Europe • Latin America • Oceania

By ordinal classification – First World • Second World • Third World • Fourth World

By economic development – Developed countries • Developing countries • Least Developed Countries

By continent – Africa • Antarctica • Australia • Eurasia (Europe and Asia) • North America • South America

Countries and polar regions of the world:

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Geography

Continents and major geopolitical regions (non-continents are italicized)

Africa • Antarctica • Asia • Europe • North America • Oceania (includes Australia) • South America

Political divisions of the World, arranged by continent or major geopolitical region

Africa

West Africa

Benin • Burkina Faso • Cape Verde • Gambia • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) • Liberia • Mali • Mauritania • Niger • Nigeria (Rivers State) • Senegal • Sierra Leone • Togo

North Africa

Algeria • Egypt (Cairo) • Libya • Mauritania • Morocco • Sudan • South Sudan •Tunisia • Western Sahara

Central Africa

Angola • Burundi • Cameroon • Central African Republic • Chad • The Democratic Republic of the Congo • Equatorial Guinea • Gabon • Republic of the Congo • Rwanda • São Tomé and Príncipe

East Africa

Burundi • Comoros • Djibouti • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Kenya • Madagascar • Malawi • Mauritius • Mozambique • Rwanda • Seychelles • Somalia • Tanzania • Uganda • Zambia • Zimbabwe

Southern Africa

Botswana • Eswatini (Swaziland) • Lesotho • Namibia • South Africa (Cape Town)

Dependencies

Mayotte (France) • St. Helena (UK) • Puntland • Somaliland • Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Antarctica

None

Asia

Central Asia

Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Uzbekistan

East Asia

China

Tibet

Hong Kong • Macau

Japan (Kyoto) • North Korea • South Korea • Mongolia • Taiwan

North Asia

Russia

Southeast Asia

Brunei • Cambodia • East Timor (Timor-Leste) • Indonesia (Jakarta) • Laos • Malaysia • Myanmar (Burma) • Philippines (Metro Manila) • Singapore • Thailand (Bangkok) • Vietnam

South Asia

Afghanistan • Bangladesh • Bhutan • Maldives • Nepal • Pakistan • Sri Lanka

India

States of India: Andhra Pradesh • Arunachal Pradesh • Assam • Bihar • Chhattisgarh • Goa • Gujarat • Haryana • Himachal Pradesh • Jharkhand • Karnataka • Kerala • Madhya Pradesh • Maharashtra • Manipur • Meghalaya • Mizoram • Nagaland (Kohima) • Odisha • Punjab • Rajasthan • Sikkim • Tamil Nadu • Telangana • Tripura • Uttar Pradesh • Uttarakhand • West Bengal

Union Territories of India: Andaman & Nicobar Islands • Chandigarh • Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu • Delhi • Jammu and Kashmir • Ladakh • Lakshadweep • Pondicherry

West Asia

Armenia • Azerbaijan • Bahrain • Cyprus (including disputed Northern Cyprus) • Georgia • Iran • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Kuwait • Lebanon • Oman • State of Palestine • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Turkey (Istanbul) • United Arab Emirates (Dubai) • Yemen

Caucasus (a region considered to be in both Asia and Europe, or between them)

North Caucasus

Parts of Russia (Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Adyghea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachai-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai)

South Caucasus

Georgia (including disputed Abkhazia, South Ossetia) • Armenia • Azerbaijan (including disputed Republic of Artsakh)

Europe

Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Albania • Andorra • Armenia • Austria (Vienna) • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska) • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic (Prague) • Denmark • Estonia • Faroe Islands • Finland • France (Paris) • Georgia • Germany (Dresden, Munich) • Gibraltar • Greece (Athens) • Guernsey • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Isle of Man • Italy (Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Turin, Venice) • Jersey • Kazakhstan • Kosovo • Latvia • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Malta • Moldova (including disputed Transnistria) • Monaco • Montenegro • Netherlands • North Macedonia • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Russia (Saint Petersburg) • San Marino • Serbia • Slovakia • Slovenia •

Norway

Svalbard

Spain

Autonomous communities of Spain: Catalonia (Barcelona)

Sweden (Stockholm) • Switzerland (Geneva) • Turkey • Ukraine

United Kingdom

England (Cornwall, London) • Northern Ireland • Scotland (Edinburgh) • Wales

Vatican City

European Union

North America

Canada

Provinces of Canada: • Alberta • British Columbia • Manitoba • New Brunswick • Newfoundland and Labrador • Nova Scotia • Ontario (Ottawa, Toronto) • Prince Edward Island • Quebec • Saskatchewan

Territories of Canada: Northwest Territories • Yukon • Nunavut

Greenland • Saint Pierre and Miquelon

United States

Alabama • Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts (Boston) • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York (New York City) • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming

District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.)

Mexico

Central America

Belize • Costa Rica • El Salvador • Guatemala • Honduras • Nicaragua • Panama

Caribbean

Anguilla • Antigua and Barbuda • Aruba • Bahamas • Barbados • Bermuda • British Virgin Islands • Cayman Islands • Cuba • Dominica • Dominican Republic • Grenada • Haiti • Jamaica • Montserrat • Netherlands Antilles • Puerto Rico • Saint Barthélemy • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • Saint Martin • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago • Turks and Caicos Islands • United States Virgin Islands

Oceania (includes the continent of Australia)

Australasia

Australia (Melbourne, Sydney)

Dependencies/Territories of Australia

Christmas Island • Norfolk Island

New Zealand

Melanesia

Fiji • Indonesia (Oceanian part only) • New Caledonia (France) • Papua New Guinea • Solomon Islands • Vanuatu •

Micronesia

Federated States of Micronesia • Guam (US) • Kiribati • Marshall Islands • Nauru • Northern Mariana Islands (US) • Palau •

Polynesia

American Samoa (US) • Cook Islands (NZ) • French Polynesia (France) • Hawaii (US) • Niue (NZ) • Pitcairn Islands (UK) • Samoa • Tokelau (NZ) • Tonga • Tuvalu • Wallis and Futuna (France)

South America

Argentina • Bolivia • Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) • Chile • Colombia • Ecuador • Falkland Islands • Guyana • Paraguay • Peru • Suriname • Uruguay • Venezuela

South Atlantic

Ascension Island • Saint Helena • Tristan da Cunha

Lists

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Countries • Country-related topics

Lists by country – Flags • Politics

Country subdivisions – Cities • Counties • Neighborhoods • Places

Geographical features

Land features • Deserts • Highest points • Islands • Mountains • Mountain passes • Mountain ranges • Volcanoes

Bodies of water • Canals • Lakes • Oceans • Reservoirs and dams • Rivers • Straits • Waterways

Man-made boundaries • Countries that border only one other country • Enclaves and exclaves • Border irregularities of the United States

Other: List of slums

Portals

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Geography

Continents

Regions

Countries

Territories

Provinces and states

Canada: Ontario

Counties

Ireland: Kilkenny

Cities

Supranational

European Union

Glossaries

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Geography •

Flags • Medieval land terms • Terms for country subdivisions •

European Union

Indices

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Main index: Geography

Continents

Africa • Antarctica • Asia • Europe • Australia

Political divisions of World, arranged by continent or major geopolitical region:

Africa:

West Africa:

Benin • Burkina Faso • Cape Verde • Côte d'Ivoire • Gambia • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Liberia • Mali • Mauritania • Nigeria • Senegal

North Africa:

Algeria • Egypt • Libya • Mauritania • Morocco • Tunisia

Central Africa:

Angola • Burundi • Cameroon • Central African Republic • Chad • The Democratic Republic of Congo • Equatorial Guinea • Gabon • Republic of Congo • Rwanda • São Tomé and Príncipe

East Africa:

Burundi • Comoros • Djibouti • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Kenya • Madagascar • Mauritius • Mozambique • Rwanda • Seychelles • Somalia (Somaliland) • Uganda • Zambia • Zimbabwe

Southern Africa:

Botswana • Lesotho • Namibia • South Africa

Antarctica:

Antarctica

Asia:

Central Asia:

Kazakhstan^[1] • Kyrgyzstan • Turkmenistan

East Asia:

China^[2]

Tibet

Hong Kong^[3] • Macau^[4]

Japan

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Mongolia • Taiwan^[5]

Southeast Asia:^[6]

Brunei • Cambodia^[7] • East Timor (Timor-Leste)^[8] • Indonesia^[9] • Laos • Malaysia • Philippines • Singapore • Vietnam

South Asia:

Bangladesh • Bhutan • Iran • Maldives • Nepal

West Asia:

Armenia^[10] • Azerbaijan^[11] • Bahrain • Cyprus^[12] (including disputed Northern Cyprus) • Georgia^[13] • Israel • Jordan • Kuwait • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Turkey^[14] • United Arab Emirates • Yemen

Caucasus (a region considered to be in both Asia and Europe, or between them)

Georgia (including disputed Abkhazia) • Armenia • Azerbaijan (including disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic)

Europe:

Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Andorra • Armenia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Finland • Georgia • Germany • Greece • Guernsey • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Italy • Kazakhstan • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Malta • Moldova (including disputed Transnistria) • Monaco • Portugal • San Marino • Serbia • Spain • Switzerland • Turkey • United Kingdom • Vatican City

Canada

Canadian provinces

Alberta • British Columbia • Newfoundland and Labrador • Nova Scotia • Ontario • Quebec • Saskatchewan

Aboriginal Canadian

Greenland • Mexico • Saint Pierre and Miquelon

United States

U.S. administrative divisions

Alabama • Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Montana • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York (New York City) • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming

District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.)

U.S. counties

African American

Asian American

Central America:

Belize • Costa Rica • El Salvador • Guatemala • Honduras • Nicaragua • Panama

Caribbean:

Anguilla • Antigua and Barbuda • Aruba • Bahamas • Barbados • Bermuda • Cayman Islands • Cuba • Dominica • Dominican Republic • Grenada • Haiti • Jamaica • Montserrat • Netherlands Antilles • Puerto Rico • Saint Barthélemy • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • Saint Martin • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Turks and Caicos Islands • United States Virgin Islands

Oceania: (includes the continent of Australia):

Australasia:^[15]

Australia

Dependencies/Territories of Australia:

Christmas Island^[16] • Cocos (Keeling) Islands •

Melanesia:^[17]

Fiji • Indonesia (Oceanian part only)^[18]

Micronesia:

Federated States of Micronesia • Guam (USA) • Marshall Islands • Nauru • Northern Mariana Islands (USA) • Palau •

Polynesia

American Samoa (USA) • Cook Islands (NZ) French Polynesia (France) • Hawaii (USA) • Tokelau (NZ)

South America:

Argentina • Chile • Colombia • Ecuador • Falkland Islands • Guyana • Paraguay • Peru • Uruguay • Venezuela

South Atlantic:

Ascension Island

^ Kazakhstan is sometimes considered a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe; population and area figures are for Asian portion only.
^ The state is commonly known as simply "China", which is subsumed by the eponymous entity and civilization (China).
^ Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of PRC.
^ Macau is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of PRC.
^ Under the de facto control of Republic of China (ROC) government, commonly referred to as Taiwan. Claimed in whole by the PRC; see political status of Taiwan.
^ Excludes Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australian external territories in the Indian Ocean southwest of Indonesia).
^ General Population Census of Cambodia 2008 - Provisional population totals, National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, released 3rd September, 2008
^ East Timor is often considered a transcontinental country in Southeastern Asia and Oceania.
^ Indonesia is often considered a transcontinental country in Southeastern Asia and Oceania
^ Armenia is sometimes considered a transcontinental country: physiographically in Western Asia, it has historical and sociopolitical connections with Europe.
^ Azerbaijan is often considered a transcontinental country in Western Asia and Eastern Europe; population and area figures are for Asian portion only. Figures include Nakhchivan, an autonomous exclave of Azerbaijan bordered by Armenia, Iran, and Turkey.
^ The island of Cyprus is sometimes considered a transcontinental territory: in the Eastern Basin of Mediterranean Sea south of Turkey, it has historical and socio-political connections with Europe. However, the U.N. considers Cyprus to be in Western Asia, while the C.I.A. considers it to be in the Middle East.
^ Georgia is often considered a transcontinental country in Western Asia and Eastern Europe; population and area figures are for the Asian portion only.
^ Turkey is generally considered a transcontinental country in Western Asia and Southern Europe; population and area figures are for Asian portion only, excluding all of Istanbul.
^ The use and scope of this term varies. The UN designation for this subregion is "Australia and New Zealand."
^ Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands are Australian external territories in the Indian Ocean southwest of Indonesia.
^ Excludes parts of Indonesia, island territories in Southeast Asia (UN region) frequently reckoned in this region.
^ Indonesia is generally considered a territory of Southeastern Asia (UN region); wholly or partially, it is also frequently included in Australasia or Melanesia. Figures include Indonesian portion of New Guinea (Irian Jaya) and Maluku Islands.

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[1] Kazakhstan is sometimes considered a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe; population and area figures are for Asian portion only.

[2] The state is commonly known as simply "China", which is subsumed by the eponymous entity and civilization (China).

[3] Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of PRC.

[4] Macau is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of PRC.

[5] Under the de facto control of Republic of China (ROC) government, commonly referred to as Taiwan. Claimed in whole by the PRC; see political status of Taiwan.

[ccau_one-6] Excludes Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australian external territories in the Indian Ocean southwest of Indonesia).

[7] General Population Census of Cambodia 2008 - Provisional population totals, National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, released 3rd September, 2008

[8] East Timor is often considered a transcontinental country in Southeastern Asia and Oceania.

[9] Indonesia is often considered a transcontinental country in Southeastern Asia and Oceania

[10] Armenia is sometimes considered a transcontinental country: physiographically in Western Asia, it has historical and sociopolitical connections with Europe.

[11] Azerbaijan is often considered a transcontinental country in Western Asia and Eastern Europe; population and area figures are for Asian portion only. Figures include Nakhchivan, an autonomous exclave of Azerbaijan bordered by Armenia, Iran, and Turkey.

[12] The island of Cyprus is sometimes considered a transcontinental territory: in the Eastern Basin of Mediterranean Sea south of Turkey, it has historical and socio-political connections with Europe. However, the U.N. considers Cyprus to be in Western Asia, while the C.I.A. considers it to be in the Middle East.

[13] Georgia is often considered a transcontinental country in Western Asia and Eastern Europe; population and area figures are for the Asian portion only.

[14] Turkey is generally considered a transcontinental country in Western Asia and Southern Europe; population and area figures are for Asian portion only, excluding all of Istanbul.

[Australasia-15] The use and scope of this term varies. The UN designation for this subregion is "Australia and New Zealand."

[ccau_two-16] Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands are Australian external territories in the Indian Ocean southwest of Indonesia.

[Melanesia-17] Excludes parts of Indonesia, island territories in Southeast Asia (UN region) frequently reckoned in this region.

[indo-18] Indonesia is generally considered a territory of Southeastern Asia (UN region); wholly or partially, it is also frequently included in Australasia or Melanesia. Figures include Indonesian portion of New Guinea (Irian Jaya) and Maluku Islands.

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