Historical Geography

Historical geography studies how places were in the past and how changes occur over time.

Industrial Geography

An industrial geographer studies such things as finding the best locations for setting up industries.

Marketing Geography

Marketing geographers are concerned with finding the best store location for the distribution of goods at the lowest cost to customers. They do research on such matters as population, traffic flow, and street location.

Political Geography

Political geographers study countries to find out their weaknesses and strengths.

Population Geography

The work of the population geographers is to study the distribution of people in certain areas; their age groups, sexes, races, languages, and religions.

Regional Geography

The regional geographer specializes in a particular country or region of the earth. As well as studying the land, he also studies the language and cultures of the people so that he can communicate with them and understand their literature.