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Relative Location
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The position of a place or an activity in relation to other places or activities.
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Spatial Interaction
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The movement (i.e. of people, goods, information) between different places; in indication of interdependence between areas.
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Globalization
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The increasing interconnection of all parts of the world as the full range of social, cultural, political, economic, etc.
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Accessibility
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The relative ease with which a destination may be reached from other locations, the relative opportunity for spatial interaction.
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Connectivity
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The directness of routes linking pairs of places, all of the tangible and intangible means of connection and communication between places.
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Absolute Direction
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Direction with respect to cardinal east, west, north, and south.
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Site
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The place where something is located; the immediate surroundings and their attributes.
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Region
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An area of the earth that displays a distinctive grouping of physical or cultural phenomenon or is functionally united as a single organization.
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Functional Region
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A region differentiated by what occurs within it; an earth area recognized as an operational unit
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Absolute Location
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The exact position of an object or a place.
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Area Analysis Tradition
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One of the four traditions of geography, that of regional geography.
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Cultural Landscape
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The natural landscape as modified by human activities.
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Scale
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In cartography, the relation between length or size of an area on a map and the actual length or size of that same area on the earth’s surface.
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Absolute Distance
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The shortest path separation between places measured.
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Formal Region
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A region distinguished by uniformity of one or more characteristics that can serve as the basis for an aerial generalization.
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