This document provides an overview of key concepts in regional geography. It discusses the main elements of regional geography, including physical geography, human geography, natural environment, human geography, political geography, and economic geography. For each element, it provides brief definitions and examples to illustrate key concepts and components within regional geography.

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R E G I O N G E O G R A P H Y
L E C T U R E R : M O H D N O R U L H I S YA M B I N H A S S A N
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2. ELEMENT OF REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY
• The world regional geography is a study about
the world’sregions.
• Devide two main branches:
• Physical Geography
• Human Geography
 NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
 POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

3. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
• Set of living/non living things on earth occurring naturally
without the influenced by humans.
- Example: i) Global climate change: Climate change refer to
surface
temperature of earth for
example
global warming cause by
burning of
fossil.
ii)Weather: (Sunny,Rain,Cloudy)
iii)Natural Hazard: Natural disaster that give negative
effect on
humans for example earthquake,
volcanic
and tsunami.
iv)Natural Resources: Resources that exist naturally

4. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY• A branch of geography dealing with human activity affects on it influenced
by the earth surface.
• Includes
Language5
Religions
 Language
- Human system of communication such as voke sound, gesture and written
symbols.
 5 most spoken language in the world
- Mandarin/Chinese
- English
- Spanish
- Hindi
- Arab

5.  Religions
-System of faith, worship and practice that define the
relations between human being.
 Top 3 Religions
- Islam
- Christian
- Hindusm

6. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
• Branch of geography that deals with human government, the
boundaries and subsidiaries of political units as nation/ state/
situation of cities.
• 5 main form of power: monarchy/ Democracy/ Oligarchy/
authoritarianism/ totalitarianism
 Democracy
- Form of government in which powers belong tompeople
(rakyat). Example: us.
 Monarchy
- Form of government in which a single family rule from
generation to generation. Example: UK.

7.  Oligarchy
- Form of government in which all power resides with a few
people
or in a dominant group within two society. Example: Soviet
union.
 Authirutarianism
- Form of government in which people have no participation.
Example: Cuba
 Totalitariansm
- Form of government in which one person or political party
exercise absolute control. Example: North Korea.

8. ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
• Study of the location, distribution and spatial
organization of economic activities across the world.
 Types of World Economic Sector
- Primarily sector
- Secondary sector
- Teritory sector
- Quaternary Sector

9.  Primary sector
- The extraction of raw material from the earth.
Example: Farmor, coal miners, hunters.
 Secondary sector
- The transformation of raw materials into goods.
Example: Factory workers.
 Teritory sector
- The supplying of service to consumer/business.
Example: Restaurant/ accountants/ pilots.
 Quaternary sector
- Intelectual activities such as scientific research, education and information technology.
Example: Reasearchers/ librarian