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Main articles: Earth, Geography and Place

Geography – Atlas • City • Climate • Cultural geography • Demographics • Distance decay • Earth • Exploration • First law of geography • Geoarchaeology • Geocode • Geographer • Geographic information science • Geographic information system • History of geography • Hubbard Medal • Land cover • Map • Minimum bounding rectangle • Park • Philosophy of Geography • Place • Population Density • Quantitative revolution • Region • Regionalisation • Sense of place • Spatial analysis • Subregion • Subterranea • Surveying

Branches of Geography

Physical geography – Biogeography • Climatology • Coastal/Marine studies • Environmental geography • Geodesy • Geomorphology • Hydrology (Glaciology, Oceanography, Limnology) • Landscape ecology • Palaeogeography • Pedology

Human geography – Behavioral geography • Children's geographies • Cultural geography • Economic geography • Environmental geography • Feminist geography • Development geography • Health geography • Historical geography • Military geography • Political geography, including Geopolitics • Population geography or Demography • Regional geography • Social geography • Strategic geography • Time geography • Tourism geography • Urban geography

Geographical features

Natural geographical features

Landforms – Badlands • Bluff • Canyon • Cave • Cliff • Coast • Continent • Coral reef • Cove • Crater • Cuesta • Dale • Dell • Desert • Escarpment • Fen • Fjord • Foothills • Forest • Geyser • Glacier • Glen • Gully • Grassland • Highland • Hill • Hoodoo (geology) • Island • Knoll • Landform • Mesa • Mountain • Mountain pass • Mountain range • Plain • Plateau • Prairie • Peninsula • Reef • Ravine • Ridge • Sandbar • Savanna • Steppe • Tundra • Vale • Valley • Volcano • Wetland

Bodies of water – Bay • Cape • Cave • Channel • Cove • Delta • Estuary • Fjord • Geyser • Gulf • Inlet • Lagoon • Lake • Marsh • Ocean • Pond • River • Sea • Sound • Source (river or stream) • Spring (hydrosphere) • Strait • Stream  Swamp • Tide pool • Vernal pool • Waterfall • Watershed • Waterway • Wetland

Manmade geographical features – Airport • Aqueduct • Artificial dwelling hill • Artificial island • Artificial reef • Breakwater • Bridge • Canal • Causeway • Country • Country subdivision • Dam (Dike, Levee) • Farm • Manmade harbor • Marina • Nation • National park • Nature reserve • Orchard • Park • Pier • Pipeline • Port • Railway • Ranch • Reservoir • Road (Highway, Race track, Street) • Settlement (Village, Town, City, Megalopolis) • Subsidence crater • Ski resort • Train station • Tree farm • Tunnel • Viaduct • Wharf • Wildlife reserve

The World – (Earth and places on it)

By hemisphere – New World • Old World |  Eastern world • Western world |  Eastern Hemisphere • Western Hemisphere |  Northern Hemisphere • Southern Hemisphere

By cultural region – Anglosphere • Arab world • Chinese world (Sinosphere) • Indosphere

By ordinal classification – First World • Second World • Third World • Fourth World • Fifth World

By economic development – Developed countries • Developing countries • Least Developed Countries

By continent – Africa • Antarctica • Australia • Eurasia • North America • South America

Countries of the World:

Countries of Africa	Countries of Asia	Countries of Europe	Countries of North America
Countries of Oceania	Countries of South America	Antarctic	Arctic