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  2. The Oregon Desert - Wikipedia

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    Chapter 8, "Bronc Rides on the High Desert" by R. A. Long, includes a number of anecdotal stories about horsemanship. Chapter 9, "All in a Day's Work" by R. A Long, has more anecdotal stories and tall tales. Chapter 10, "The High Desert Was Kind to Sheep" by R. A. Long, has anecdotal stories about Irish and Basque sheepherders.

  3. Outline of geography - Wikipedia

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    Human geography – one of the two main subfields of geography is the study of human use and understanding of the world and the processes that have affected it. Human geography broadly differs from physical geography in that it focuses on the built environment and how space is created, viewed, and managed by humans, as well as the influence humans have on the space they occupy.

  4. Khadir and Bangar - Wikipedia

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    In any doab, khadar land (green) lies next to a river, while bangur land (olive) has greater elevation and lies further from the river. Khādir or Khadar and Bangar, Bāngur or Bhangar (Hindi language: खादर और बांगर, Urdu languageکهادر اور بانگر) are terms used in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi in the Indo-Gangetic plains of North India and Pakistan to ...

  5. Gipmochi - Wikipedia

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    Gipmochi (Gyemo Chen or Gamochen, 'The Great Queen') [2] is a mountain in the Lower Himalayas in south central Asia. [3] Rising to a height of 14,523 feet (4,427 m), [1] the mountain sits on the border between the northern Indian state of Sikkim and Bhutan.

  6. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    [2] acculturation The act of adopting a culture different to your own; usually due to immersion into a dominant group. acme See summit. acre (ac) A unit of area traditionally defined as the area of a plot of land one chain (66 feet) by one furlong (660 feet), equivalent to 43,560 square feet (0.001563 sq mi; 4,047 m 2), or about 0.40 hectare.

  7. History of geography - Wikipedia

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    The term critical geography has been in use since at least 1749, when the book Geography reformed: a new system of general geography, according to an Accurate Analysis of the science in four parts dedicated a chapter to the topic titled "of Critical Geography." [61] This chapter described critical geography as an approach geographers take to ...

  8. Eurasia - Wikipedia

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    Eurasia (/ j ʊəˈr eɪ ʒ ə / yoor-AY-zhə, also UK: /-ʃ ə /-⁠shə) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. [3] [4] According to some geographers, physiographically, Eurasia is a single supercontinent. [4]

  9. Eastern Ghats - Wikipedia

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    The name Eastern Ghats derives from the word ghat and the cardinal direction in which it is located with respect to the Indian mainland. Ghat, a term used in the Indian subcontinent, depending on the context, could either refer to a range of stepped hills such as the Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats, or a series of steps leading down to a body of water or wharf.