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Strategic geography is concerned with the control of, or access to, spatial areas that have an impact on the security and prosperity of nations. Spatial areas that concern strategic geography change with human needs and development; recent examples of spatial areas include oil fields which affect the prosperity of a nation or the Gaza strip. This field is a subset of human geography, itself a subset of the more general study of geography. It is also related to geostrategy. For example, Cairo was built on the banks of the Nile river. Not only did this make for fertile land, but easy access to the rest of Ancient Egypt.
