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