Why is each point on Earth Unique?
Location can be identified in three ways:
1 Place names
A antonym is name given to a place on Earth
names derived from people of prominence, religious affiliation Physical features or origins of it's settlers
2 Site
Site is Physical Character of a place
3 situation
situation is the location of a place relative to other places
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
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