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Encyclopedia > Strategic geography

Strategic geography is concerned with the control of, or access to, spatial areas that have an impact on the security and prosperity of nations. Spatial areas that concern strategic geography change with human needs and development; recent examples of spatial areas include oil fields which affect the prosperity of a nation or the Gaza strip. This field is a subset of human geography, itself a subset of the more general study of geography. It is also related to geostrategy. For example, Cairo was built on the banks of the Nile river. Not only did this make for fertile land, but easy access to the rest of Ancient Egypt. Security measures taken to protect the Houses of Parliament in London, England. ... One of the most influential doctrines in history is that all humans are divided into groups called nations. ... Human geography is a branch of geography that focuses on the systematic study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the environment, with particular reference to the causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity on the Earths surface. ... Geostrategy is a subfield of geopolitics. ... Although technically in Giza, The Great Pyramids have become a symbol of Cairo internationally Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة; transliterated: al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt (and previously the United Arab Republic) and has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15. ... There is also Nile, a death metal band from South Carolina, USA. The Nile in Egypt Length 6 695 km Elevation of the source 1 134 m Average discharge 2 830 m³/s Area watershed 3 400 000 km² Origin Africa Mouth the Mediterranean Basin countries Uganda - Sudan - Egypt The... Map of Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt was a civilization along the Lower Nile, reaching from the Nile Delta in the north as far south Jebel Barkal at the time of its greatest extension (15th century BC). ...

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Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Geography (2273 words)
Geography is the scientific study of the locational and spatial variation in both physical and human phenomena on Earth.
Geography is much more than cartography, the study of maps, nor is it the study of 'capes and bays'.
By the 18th century, geography had become recognized as a discrete discipline and became part of a typical university curriculum in Europe (especially Paris and Berlin), although not the in the United Kingdom where geography was generally taught as a sub-discipline of other subjects.
Strategic geography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (138 words)
Strategic geography is concerned with the control of, or access to, spatial areas that have an impact on the security and prosperity of nations.
Spatial areas that concern strategic geography change with human needs and development; recent examples of spatial areas include oil fields which affect the prosperity of a nation or the Gaza strip.
This field is a subset of human geography, itself a subset of the more general study of geography.
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