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Fields. Economic and social geography. Doreen Barbara Massey FRSA FBA FAcSS (3 January 1944 – 11 March 2016) was a British social scientist and geographer. [1] She specialized in Marxist geography, feminist geography, and cultural geography, as well as other topics. She was Professor of Geography at the Open University.
The 2020 General Social Survey revealed that 92% of adult Canadians said that "[ethnic] diversity is a Canadian value". [15] About 25% of Canadians were "racialized"; [2] By 2021, 23% of the Canadian population were immigrants—the "largest proportion since Confederation", according to Statistics Canada.
Ethnogeography or Ethnic Geography (ἔθνος + γεωγραφία) is the scientific study of the geographic distribution of ethnic groups. [1] Ethnogeography is related to geography in the broad sense by its study of the influence of human activity and of ethnic entities as a whole. [2]
A map of Ghana's ethno-linguistic areas. Ghana is a multilingual country in which about 80 languages are spoken. [2] English is the official language and lingua franca. [3] [4] Of the languages indigenous to Ghana, Akan is the most widely spoken.
German is the main language of approximately 95 to 100 million people in Europe, or 13.3% of all Europeans. This makes it the second most spoken native language in Europe, behind only Russian (with 144 million speakers), and ahead of French (with 66.5 million) and English (with 64.2 million). The European countries with German-speaking ...
The following demographic statistics of Zambia in 2022 are from the World Population Review. [ 18 ] One birth every 47 seconds. One death every 4 minutes. One net migrant every 65 minutes. Net gain of one person every 57 seconds. The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.
The Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects (Chinese : 汉语方言地图集; pinyin : Hànyǔ Fāngyán Dìtú Jí), edited by Cao Zhiyun and published in 2008 in three volumes, is a dialect atlas documenting the geography of varieties of Chinese. Unlike the Language Atlas of China (1987), which aims to map the boundaries of both minority ...
Cultural geography is a subfield within human geography.Though the first traces of the study of different nations and cultures on Earth can be dated back to ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo, cultural geography as academic study firstly emerged as an alternative to the environmental determinist theories of the early 20th century, which had believed that people and societies are ...