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Cartography

Contagious diffusion

Cultural ecology

Culture

Cultural landscape

Density (all types)

Diffusion

Distance decay

Distribution

Environmental determinism

Equator

Expansion diffusion

Formal region

Functional region

GIS

Globalization

GPS

Hierarchal diff.

Hearth

Intervening opportunities

International date line

Latitude

Longitude

Mercator projection

Mental map

MDC/LDC

Possibilism

Prime meridian

Map projection

Relocation diffusion

Remote sensing

Robinson projection

Scale

Site

Situation

Time-space compression

Spatial analysis

Stimulus diffusion

Time zones

Toponym

Transnational corporation

Uneven development

Vernacular region

Population

Age cohort

Age-sex distribution

Agricultural revolution

Anti-natalist (and pro natalist)

Arithmetic density

Census

Contraception

Crude death rate

Crude birth rate

Demographic transition

Demography

Dependency ratio

Doubling time

Ecumene (and non ecumene)

Epidemic

Epidemiology

Epidemiologic transition

Industrial revolution

Infant mortality rate

Life expectancy

Medical revolution

Natural increase rate

Neo-Malthusian

Overpopulation

Pandemic

Physiological density

Population pyramid

Thomas Malthus

Total fertility rate

Zero population growth

Language

British received pronunciation

Accent

Dialect

Ebonics

Esperanto

Extinct language

Ideogram

Isogloss

Isolated language

Language branch

Language

Language group

Language family

Lingua franca

Literary tradition

Mono-, bi-, multi-linguality

Official language

Orthography

Pidgin

Standard language

Toponym

Vernacular

Vulgar Latin

Religion

Adherent

Allah

Animism

Atheism

Autonomous religion

Branch

Cosmogony

Denomination

Diocese

Ethnic religion

Fundamentalism

Ghetto

Hierarchical religion

Interfaith boundary

Intrafaith boundary

Missionary

Monastery

Monotheism

Pagan

Patriarch

Pilgrimage

Polytheism

Priest

Protestant

Reincarnation

Religion

Sacrament

Sect

Secularism

Shamanism

Syncretism

Traditional religion

Tribal religion

Universalizing religion

Zionism

Ethnicity

Apartheid

Balkanization

Blockbusting

Centripetal force

Centrifugal force

Ethnicity

Ethnic cleansing

Genocide

Multi-ethnic state

Multinational state

Nationalism

Nationality

Nation-state

Part nation state

Race

Racism

Self-determination

White flight

Political Geography

Al-Qaeda

Autonomy

Balance of power

Boundary

City-state

Civil divisions

Colonialism

Colony

Compact state

Devolution

Elongated state

European Union

Federal state

Forward capital

Fragmented state

Frontier

Gerrymander

Imperialism

Irredentism

Jihad

Landlocked state

Law of the Sea

Microstate

Multinational state

Mujahedeen

NATO

Operation desert storm

Perforated state

Prorupted state

Quasi-state

Self-determination

Separatism

Sovereignty

State

Stateless nation

Unitary state

Supranationaism

Taliban

United nations

Warsaw pact

Weapons of mass destruction

Agriculture

Agribusiness

Boserup hypothesis

Carl Sauer

Cash crop

Commercial agriculture

Crop rotation

Desertification

Domestication

Double cropping

Fallow

Green revolution

Horticulture

Intensive subsistence agriculture

Luxury crops

Market gardening (truck farming)

Mediterranean agriculture

Milk shed

Neolithic revolution

Pastoral nomadism

Plantation

Ranching

Seed agriculture hearths

Shifting cultivation

Slash-and-burn (swidden)

Subsistence agriculture

Sustainable agriculture

Thomas Malthus

Transhumance

Truck farm

Vegetative agriculture hearths

Von Thunen’s model

Development

Brandt line

Consumer goods

Core-periphery model

Development

Economic indicators

Fair trade

Foreign direct investment

Gender empowerment measure

Gender-related development index

Green revolution

Gross domestic product

Human development index

International monetary fund

Literacy rate

Outsourcing

Primary sector

Productivity

Raw materials

Recession

Rostow’s “modernization model”

Secondary sector

Social indicators

Structural adjustment programs

Subsistence economy

Tertiary sector

Trickle-down effect

Transnational corporation

Value added

World trade organization

Industry

Agglomeration

Assembly line

Basic industry

Break-of-bulk

Brownfield

Bulk-gaining industry

Capital

Cottage industry

Deindustrialization

Export processing zone

Footloose industry

“fordism” (post-fordism)

hotelling model

industrial inertia

infrastructure

economies of scale

labor-intensive industry

least-cost theory

location theory

manufacturing region

maquiladora

mass production

nonbasic industry

outsourcing

primary industry

raw materials

site factors

situation factors

secondary industry

substitution principle

textile

varignon frame

Alfred Weber

Services

Annexation

CBD

Command and control centers

Concentric zone model

Density gradient

Edge city

Filtering

Galactic city

Gentrification

Greenbelts

Hinterland

Market area

Megalopolis

MSA

Multiple-nuclei model

Peripheral model

Primate city

Public housing

Range

Rank-size rule

Redlining

Renovated housing

Scattered site

Squatter settlement

Sector model

Smart growth

Sprawl

Threshold

Underclass

Urban renewal

World city

Zone in transition

Zoning

Urban patterns

Census

Micropolitan statistical area

Smart growth

Urbanization