Branches of geography

Economic Geography: the distribution of production and distribution of goods, the distribution of wealth, and the spatial structure of economic conditions.

Applied Geography

Recreation, Tourism, and Sport Geography

Transportation geography

Urban Geography: investigates the location, structure, development, and growth of cities, from tiny villages to huge megalopolises.

Agricultural and Rural Geography

Regional Geography

Physical Geography: concerned with the natural features on or near the surface of the earth.

Geomorphology

Cryosphere Geography

Soils Geography

Biogeography

Population geography

Distribution, migration, and growth of population in geographic areas.

Human Geography: interaction with the earth and their organization of spaces on the earth's surface.

Geography of Religions

Distribution of religious groups, their cultures, and built environments.

Medical Geography

Distribution of disease, illness, death and health care.

Military Geography

Distribution of military facilities and troops, and also geographic tools to develop military solutions.

Quantitative Methods

Mathematical techniques and models to test hypotheses.

Geographic education

Give teachers the knowledge they need to help combat geographic illiteracy and to develop future generations of geographers.

Water Resources Management

Distribution of water across the planet within the hydrologic cycle and of human-developed systems for water storage, distribution, and use.

Remote Sensing

Using satellites and sensors to examine features on or near the earth's surface from a distance.

Cartography

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Geographic Information Systems

Political Geography

Hazards Geography

Environmental geography: the spatial aspects of interactions between humans and the natural world

Climate Geography

Global Change

Mountain Geography

Arid Regions Geography

Coastal and Marine Geography