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Geography by continent

Landmass consisting of Africa, Asia, and Europe

Height in relation to a specified reference point

Landmass comprising North and South America

Polar region around Earth's South Pole

Antarctic Circle

Boundary of the Antarctic

Earth's southernmost continent

Arctic (disambiguation)

Swiss-founded computer cooling components company

Boundary of the Arctic

Collection of maps

Australia (continent)

Continental landmass on the Australian Plate

Azimuthal equidistant projection

Azimuthal map projection

Study of underwater depth of lake or ocean floors

Geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities

Map in which geographic space is distorted based on the value of a thematic mapping variable

Study and practice of making maps

Circle of latitude

Geographic notion

Curve along which a 3-D surface is at equal elevation

Earth ellipsoid

Ellipsoid that approximates the figure of the Earth

Eastern Hemisphere

Half of Earth which lies east of the prime meridian

Height of a geographic location above a fixed reference point

Intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere's axis of rotation and midway between the poles

Combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia

Act of traveling and searching for resources or for information about the land or space itself

Gall–Peters projection

Cylindrical equal-area map projection

Reference frame for measuring location

Geographic coordinate system

Coordinate system to specify locations on Earth

Geographic information system

System to capture, manage, and present geographic data

Geographical zone

Major regions of Earth's surface demarcated by latitude

Science that studies the lands, the features, the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Earth

Geography of Africa

Geographical features of Africa

Geography of Antarctica

Geographic features of Antarctica

Geography of Asia

Overview of the geography of Asia

Geography of Australia

Geography of Europe

Geography of North America

Geography of South America

Overview of the geography of South America

Shape that the ocean surface would take under the influence of the gravity and rotation of Earth alone

Intersection of the sphere and a plane which passes through the center point of the sphere

Hemispheres of Earth

Division of the globe into equal halves

Historical geography

Branch of geography

Human geography

The study of cultures, communities and activities of peoples of the world

Measurement of the elevation and depth of features on Earth's surface relative to mean sea level.

Indian subcontinent

Physiographical region in southern Asia

International Date Line

Imaginary line that demarcates the change of one calendar day to the next

Kerguelen Plateau

Oceanic plateau in the southern Indian Ocean

Land and water hemispheres

Hemispheres on the Earth containing the largest possible total areas of land and ocean respectively

Geographic coordinate specifying north–south position

Geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface

Symbolic depiction of spatial relationships

Systematic representation of the surface of a sphere or ellipsoid onto a plane

Mercator projection

Cylindrical conformal map projection

Meridian (geography)

Line between the poles with the same longitude

Northern point where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface

Northern Hemisphere

Half of the Earth that is north of the Equator

Island recorded on maps but later proven nonexistent

Physical geography

Study of processes and patterns in the natural environment

Polar regions of Earth

Regions around the Earth's geographical poles

Political geography

The study of the spatial outcomes of political processes

Line of longitude, at which longitude is defined to be 0°

Obtaining information through non-contact sensors

Southern point where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface

Southern Hemisphere

Half of Earth that is south of the Equator

A region in the southern hemisphere that is just north of the Antarctic region

Region in the Northern Hemisphere immediately south of the true Arctic

Geographic and climate zone

The technique, profession, and science of determining the positions of points and the distances and angles between them

Temperate climate

Main climate class

Vertical and horizontal dimension and shape of land surface

Study of the forms of land surfaces

Tropic of Cancer

Line of northernmost latitude at which the Sun can be directly overhead

Tropic of Capricorn

Line of southernmost latitude at which the sun can be directly overhead

TROPICS (spacecraft constellation)

NASA small satellite mission

Western Hemisphere

Geographical term for the half of Earth which lies west of the prime meridian and east of the antimeridian

Mostly submerged continental crust area in Oceania