Outline of geography

Topics pertaining to the geographical study of the World throughout history: Topics common to the various branches of geography include: Geographic feature – component of a planet that can be referred to as a location, place, site, area, or region, and therefore may show up on a map.

Ecosystem – community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a system.

Landforms are categorized by traits such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure, and soil type.

Some awards and competitions in the field of geography: A geographer is a scientist who studies Earth's physical environment and human habitat.

They study the physical details of the environment and also its effect on human and wildlife ecologies, weather and climate patterns, economics, and culture.

A map of the world
Map of six of the world's eight biogeographic realms
Nearctic
Palearctic
Afrotropic
Indomalaya
Australasia
Neotropic
Oceania and Antarctic realms not shown
Reconstruction of Hecataeus' map of the World, created during ancient Greek times
The equal-area Mollweide projection
Population density per square kilometre by country, 2006
The Ganges river delta in India and Bangladesh is one of the most fertile regions in the world.
The volcano Mount St. Helens in Washington , United States
Provinces and territorial disputes of the People's Republic of China
Hubbard Medal awarded to Anne Morrow Lindbergh , showing her flight route
Alexander von Humboldt , considered to be the founding father of physical geography
Richard Chorley , 20th-century geographer who progressed quantitative geography and who helped bring the systems approach to geography
Sketch of Carl Ritter
David Harvey