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GEO 210: People & the Land: Intro to Cultural Geography (Crain-Loudoun)

This guide has been created to help you find geographic, economic, social/cultural information and more from country reports, articles, and other types of resources related to this program of study. Direct comments to Julie Combs, jcombs@nvcc.edu.

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Suggested Topics

  • Afghanistan - Topics: ethnicity, recent history and the rise of the Taliban
  • Armenia - Topics: genocide, boundary conflict with Azerbaijan
  • Australia - Topics: Aboriginals, mining
  • Bolivia - Topics: mining, cocaine production
  • Botswana - Topics: tourism, democracy
  • Brazil (2 x) - Topics: multi-culturalism, energy and industries, metropolitan areas
  • Canada (2x) - Topics: First Nations, cultural conflicts, energy production and economy
  • China - Topics: population shifts from rural areas to cities, internal conflicts
  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo - Topics: internal conflicts, Chinese and resource extraction
  • Germany - Topics: immigration, East/West differences after the Cold War
  • Egypt (2x) - Topics: the Aswan Dam, agriculture, Suez Canal, Arab Spring
  • Ethiopia (2x) - Topics: population control, rural vs urban development, landlocked country, conflicts
  • India (2x) - Topics: multiculturalism, internal conflicts, population & control,
  • Israel - Topics: ethnicities, internal boundary conflicts
  • India - Topics: boundary conflicts w Pakistan, scarcity of fresh water
  • Indonesia - Topics: internal conflict, economy and development
  • Israel - Topics: internal religious conflicts, boundary conflicts
  • Kazakhstan - Topics: Aral Sea catastrophe, oil and gas extraction
  • Lebanon - Topics: multiculturalism, terrorism
  • Myanmar - Topics: internal conflicts, development
  • Nigeria (2x) - Topics: ethnicities and kingdoms, internal conflicts, population, natural resources
  • North Korea - Topics: boundary conflict w South Korea, famine
  • Papua New Guinea - Topics: languages, development
  • Pakistan - Topics: the Kashmir conflict, ethnicity
  • Peru - Topics: multiculturalism, agriculture and climate change
  • Russia - Topics: Northern Sea passage, gas and oil extraction
  • Russia - Topics: ethnicity, boundary conflict with Ukraine
  • Rwanda - Topics: ethnicity and genocide, development
  • Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong - Topics: the Asian Tigers (economy), economic development

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