Why Geography is Divided into Regions

Running head: GEOGRAPHY 1
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GEOGRAPHY 2
Geography
Geography studies the earth’s features and how human beings interact with them. Some
areas on the earth’s surface are very large and despite them being part of a specific country, they
usually inhabit very different physical features, people and climatic conditions (William, Eric, &
Paul, 2013). Areas of these kind are broken down into regions based on the uniqueness of their
climate, people, physical properties, the interaction between the human activities and the
environment and the human impact characteristics. This paper focuses on why such areas should
be divided into regions and the necessity of the regions divided by geographers being the same as
those perceived by the individuals living in them.
First and foremost, geography scholars divide countries like Canada into regions to
facilitate ease of study. Canada is the second largest country in the world. It is divided into five
regions namely Atlantic Provinces, West Coast Region, Northern territories, Central Canada and
Prairie Region. These divisions are based upon the physical features, the people and their socio-
political and economic activities. The regional divisions aid scholars to study the diversity of the
country easily, efficiently and accurately.
Regions are also created to distinguish areas based on their climate. Climate regions are
those regions that experience the same weather patterns over a long period of time and include
deserts and Rainforests. Regions also separate areas based on vegetations and landforms (Singh,
2012). Some areas may have thick forests, high mountains, huge rivers and lakes while others
may be flat, have grass and lack either rivers or lakes. Geographers analyze this areas and group
them differently since the activities of individual living in such diverse regions would be
different based on the features of the areas they reside.