CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

Geography is a science major who has a physical study of the scope of the natural environment, social environment, and the interaction between larger areas such as between regions, countries and continents. By using a variety of scientific approaches such as spatial analysis, ecological analysis, and analysis of complex regions.

Mastery of the nature and scope of the study of geography is concerned with understanding to the introduction, knowledge and mastery of geographic objects such as environment and natural phenomena as well as the mind and human resources, including history and understanding of geography itself.

At first, the geography is more familiar as the earth sciences. Even in more communities are emphasized in science who memorized the names of places, the names are like Gunning natural formations, rivers and lakes. More than just about earth science, geography not only study the earth and its contents alone. But geography also studied the phenomena of nature, including the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere and antroposfer.

So in essence, geography is the study of similarities and differences in the phenomena on the earth with a view to the environment in the context of spatial and territorial

From this writing discusses the cultural geography is the human adaptation to the environment. Humans not only in regard and in regard as creatures of the physical world biotic, but also as a force. Every society has the ability and ways of adaptation in hereditary inheritance and always be developed. But more major human ecology of human relationships with the environment and less attention to the relationship between regions. So that cultural geography is included in the scope of social geography is the study of all the activities of human life on earth and its interaction with the environment both in the social environment, economy and culture. So the social geography study the impact of human activities on the environment and environmental impact on humans.

There are 6 characteristics of cultural geography, namely:

1. The location or location of an object to another object will affect the value of the object.
2. Distance impacts affect the value or price of an object, especially goods produced. The distance may also affect the length of time is needed in the relationship between place
3. Certain natural circumstances affect the pattern of population distribution and settlement.
4. Life tends to depend on population livelihood groups or social status
5. Reciprocal relationship between humans and the environment will cause the movement of people, goods or ideas.
6. The relationship between regions is due to differences among regions causing a sense of mutual need.
   

So based on 6 traits, it can create the cultural geography that arise in a country, or a particular region.