Location can be identified in three ways:
1 Place names
2 Site
3 situation
Region : A Unique Area
  An area on earth defined by one or more distinctive Characteristics is a region
Most often applied at two scales
1 spanning political states.
2 Constrained within one political state
A region derives its unified character through the cultural landscape a combination of cultural, religious and physical features
Culture is the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural landscape is the  result---Lart O Sauer, American Geography
Geographers identify three types of regions
1 Formal Region (aka uniform region or homogeneous region)
2 Functional Region (aka nodal region)
3 vernacular Region (aka perceptual region)
culture is the body of customary beliefs, material traits and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people
Two meanings
to care about
to care for
Geographers study both definitions of culture
geographers study why the customary ideas, beliefs, and values of a people produce a distinctive culture in poirticular place
Globalization is a force for process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope