Slideshow on “State & nation” for Political Geography – © Mark M. Miller, Dept. of Geography & Geology, The University of Southern Mississippi

1. Political Geography:
Metropolitan & Other Regions
Arrakeen’s Site. Retrieved 5/2/06:
www.arrakeen.ch/usamex/mexico.html

2. Learning with Toys. Retrieved 4/6/06:
http://www.learningwithtoys.com/images2/440%20Melissa%20And%20Doug%20Lights%20Camera
%20Interaction%20United%20States%20USA%20Map.jpg
What are regions?

3. What are regions?
• Represent some reality
•Defy political boundaries
•Difficult to define with precision

4. Learning with Toys. Retrieved 4/6/06:
http://www.learningwithtoys.com/images2/440%20Melissa%20And%20Doug%20Lights%20Camera
%20Interaction%20United%20States%20USA%20Map.jpg
What are regions?

5. National Park Service. Yellowstone
ecosystem. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://www.nps.gov/yell/nature/pritchard/images/map2.jpg

6. Wolf Recovery Foundation. Human impacts on
greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://www.forwolves.org/ralph/gyedevmap.htm

7. Viatgeaddictes.com. La Ruta
Maya. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://www.viatgeaddictes.com/d
st/guatem/guatem91i_es.php

8. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/goldcres/maps/africamaps
ite.html

9. Visit Athens Georgia. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://www.visitathensga.com/civilwartrail/tour.htm

10. Mississippi Blues Trail
http://www.msbluestrail.org/blues_trail/
Mississippi Civil War sites (seems to be out of action):
http://www.visitmississippi.org/cultural_historical/cultural_war.asp
African-American Military History Museum
http://www.hattiesburguso.com/

11. Urban regions
“Overbounded” urban region

12. Urban regions
“Underbounded” urban region

13. Mississippi Development Authority. Retrieved
November 17, 2009:
http://www.mississippi.org/index.php?id=513

14. At New Orleans. Retrieved November 17, 2009:
http://www.atneworleans.com/body/maps.htm

15. Federal Highway Administration. Atlanta MSA. Retrieved
5/2/06: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ctpp/jtw/profile4.jpg

16. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved November 16, 2009:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/msa_maps2008/us_wa
ll_1108.html

17. Garreau, Joel. 1991. Edge City. Doubleday. P. 141.

18. Morrill, Richard 2006 Classic map revisited:
the growth of megalopolis. Professional
Geographer 58(2): 155-160, p. 156.

19. • Mega-city
• Primate City

20. CNN. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://edition.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/03/31/mexico.time.change/m
ap.mexico.mexico.city.jpg

21. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://www.mapasdemexico.n
et/maps/mexico-city-area-
600x450.gif

22. Comparing Mexico City &
New Orleans

24. World Megacities - Population in Millions
Source: State of the World Population 200,1 Chapter 3, UNFPA
United Nations Population Fund. Retrieved 5/4/06: are.berkeley.edu/courses/EEP152/spring03/class_notes/megacities.doc

25. Largest Urban Agglomerations, 1950, 2000, 2015
Source: United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects, The 1999 Revision. From Population Reference Bureau, retrieved 5/4/06:
http://www.prb.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PRB/Educators/Human_Population/Urbanization2/Patterns_of_World_Urbanization1.htm