Our world is characterized by locations, shapes, and arrangements, and through distance, directions, and patterns. It is a physical object that human beings have learned to measure and describe in order to better understand our experience on it. The field of geography focuses on the world as a human environment, where people and places interact and impact one another. This chapter explores the following concepts to help you better understand the places and people of Earth: - regional organization
- interactions between human and environmental systems
- places that are the creations of humans alone, from cities to concentration camps
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