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| Absolute direction | Direction with respect to cardinal east, west,north and south reference points |
| Absolute location | Exact position of an object or place stated in spatial coordinates of a grid system |
| Area analysis tradition | Regional geography-1 of 4 |
| Absolute distance | The shortest- path separation between two places measured in miles or kilometers usually: also called real distance. |
| Accessibility | The relative ease with which a destination may be reached, the relative opportunity for spatial interaction. May be measured in geometric, social or economic terms. |
| Connectivity | Directness of routes linking places; all the ways to connect or commuicate |
| Cultural landscape | Natural landscapes that are modified and leave evidence of that culture |
| Culture-environment tradition | Population, cultural, political and behavioral geography 1 of 4 |
| Formal uniform region | A region with 1 or more common characteristics with adjacent areas. |
| Functional nodal region | A region differentiated by what happens in it rather than its physical or cultural phenomena based on defined organizational criterion. |
| Earth science tradition | Physical geography- 1 of 4 |
| Globalization | The interconnection of the world as the full range of social, cultural, political, and environmental processes and patterns becoming international in scale and effects. |
| Locational tradition | Economic, urban, and environmental geography- 1 of 4 |
| Natural landscape | The physical environments unaffected by human activities. Opposed to cultural landscape. |
| Perceptual region | A region perceived to exist by its inhabitants or the general populace. It has reality as an element of popular culture or folk culture represented in the mental maps of average people. Also known as a vernacular region or popular region. |
| Popular region | See perceptual region. |
| Relative direction | A culturally based locational reference, such as the Far West, the Old South, or the Middle East. |
| Relative distance | It measers distance in terms of human spatial relations i.e. time and money rather the liner space alone. |
| Spatial diffusion | The outward spread of a substance, a concept, a practice or a population from its point of origin to other areas. |
| Situation | The location of something in relation to the physical and human characteristics of a larger region. |
| Site | The place where something is located; the immediate surroundings and their attributes. |
| Scale | In cartography, the ratio between length or size of an area on map and the actual length or size of that same area on the earth's surface; map scale may be represented verbally, graphically, or as a fraction. In more general terms, scale refers to the size of the area studied, from local to global. |
| Relative location | The position of a place or an activity in relation to other places or activities. |
| Region | In geography, the term applied to an area of the earth that displays a distinctive grouping of physical or cultural phenomena or is functionally united as a single organizational unit. |
| Vernacular region | See perceptual region. |
| Spatial interaction | The movement e.g., of people, goods, information between different places; an indiction of interdependence between areas. |
