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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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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
Highland • Hill • Island • Mesa • Mountain • Mountain range • Plain • Prairie • Peninsula • Reef • Ridge • Savanna • Shoal • Steppe • Tundra • Valley • Volcano • Wetland
Spring (hydrosphere) • Strait • Stream • Swamp • Waterfall
Manmade geographical features –
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
Chinese world (Sinosphere) • Indosphere • Sub-Saharan Africa • Europe • Latin America • Oceania
By ordinal classification – First World • Second World • Third World • Fourth World
By
Least Developed Countries
By continent – Africa • Antarctica • Australia • Eurasia (Europe and Asia) • North America • South America
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
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
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 (Infrastructure) • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming
Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia)
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

Politics

Country subdivisions –

Cities • Counties • Neighborhoods • Places

Geographical features

Land features •
Volcanoes
Bodies of water •
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

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Geography

Continents

Regions

Countries

Territories

Provinces and states

Counties

Cities

Supranational

Glossaries

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Geography
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Flags • Medieval land terms •

Terms for country subdivisions
 • European Union

Categories

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Main categories: Geography and Places

Indices

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Main index: Geography

Continents

Europe • Australia

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

Africa:
West Africa:
Côte d'Ivoire • Gambia • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Liberia • Mali • Mauritania • Nigeria • Senegal
North Africa:
Algeria • Egypt • Libya • Mauritania • Morocco • Tunisia
Central Africa:
São Tomé and Príncipe
East Africa:
Burundi • Comoros • Djibouti • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Kenya • Madagascar • Mauritius • Mozambique • Rwanda • Seychelles • Somalia (Somaliland) • Uganda • Zambia • Zimbabwe
Southern Africa:
South Africa
Antarctica:
Antarctica
Asia:
Central Asia:
Kazakhstan[1] • Kyrgyzstan • Turkmenistan
East Asia:
China[2]
Tibet
Hong Kong[3] • Macau[4]
Japan
Z
Mongolia • Taiwan[5]
Southeast Asia:[6]
Philippines • Singapore • Vietnam
South Asia:
Nepal
West Asia:
United Arab Emirates • Yemen
Caucasus (a region considered to be in both Asia and Europe, or between them)
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
)
Europe
:
Vatican City
Canada
Canadian provinces
Nova Scotia • Ontario • Quebec • Saskatchewan
Aboriginal Canadian
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
United States
U.S. administrative divisions
West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming
District of Columbia
(Washington, D.C.)
U.S. counties
African American
Asian American
Central America:
El Salvador • Guatemala • Honduras • Nicaragua • Panama
Caribbean:
United States Virgin Islands
Oceania: (includes the continent of Australia):
Australasia:[15]
Australia
Dependencies/Territories of Australia:
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
•
Melanesia:[17]
Fiji • Indonesia (Oceanian part only)[18]
Micronesia:
Marshall Islands • Nauru • Northern Mariana Islands (USA) • Palau
•
Polynesia
French Polynesia (France) • Hawaii (USA) • Tokelau
(NZ)
South America:
Falkland Islands • Guyana • Paraguay • Peru • Uruguay • Venezuela
South Atlantic:
Ascension Island
  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. Special Administrative Region
    (SAR) of PRC.
  4. Special Administrative Region
    (SAR) of PRC.
  5. Republic of China (ROC) government, commonly referred to as Taiwan. Claimed in whole by the PRC; see political status of Taiwan
    .
  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. Western Asia
    , it has historical and sociopolitical connections with Europe.
  11. exclave of Azerbaijan bordered by Armenia, Iran, and Turkey
    .
  12. 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.
  15. ^ The use and scope of this term varies. The UN designation for this subregion is "Australia and New Zealand."
  16. ^ Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands are Australian external territories in the Indian Ocean southwest of Indonesia.
  17. ^ Excludes parts of Indonesia, island territories in Southeast Asia (UN region) frequently reckoned in this region.
  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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