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Also narrow. A land or water passage that is confined or restricted by its narrow breadth, often a strait or a water gap. nation A stable community of people formed on the basis of a common geographic territory, language, economy, ethnicity, or psychological make-up as manifested in a common culture. national mapping agency A governmental agency which manages, produces, and publishes ...
A unit of area traditionally defined as the area of a plot of land one chain (66 feet) by one furlong (660 feet), equivalent to 43,560 square feet (0.001563 sq mi; 4,047 m 2), or about 0.40 hectare. active volcano A volcano that is currently erupting, or one that has erupted within the last 10,000 years (the Holocene) or during recorded history ...
Glossary of geography terms may refer to: Glossary of geography terms (A–M) Glossary of geography terms (N–Z) This page was last edited on 25 ...
Administrative divisions [1] (also administrative units, [2] [3] [4] administrative regions, [5] subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divided.
Mountain range – Geographic area containing several geologically related mountains; Nunatak – Landform within an ice field or glacier; Proglacial lake – Lake formed by the action of ice; Pyramidal peak, also known as Glacial horn – Angular, sharply pointed mountainous peak; Outwash fan – Type of sediment deposition by a melting glacier
The city proper starts and ends at the city limits, as seen with this sign for Schulenburg, Texas.. A city proper is the geographical area contained within city limits. [1] [2] The term proper is not exclusive to cities; it can describe the geographical area within the boundaries of any given locality.
This category is for specific geographical areas or regions that are delineated by natural features such as meadows, deserts, etc. Any geographical regions that are political regions in nature, e.g. of a country or other political unit, would go in Category:Geographical regions
Natural resource regions can be a topic of physical geography or environmental geography, but also have a strong element of human geography and economic geography. A coal region, for example, is a physical or geomorphological region, but its development and exploitation can make it into an economic and a cultural region.