- A toponym is the name given to a place on Earth
- Names derived from a prominence religious affiliation, physical features, or origins of its settlers
2. Site
- Site is the physical character a place sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation
3. Situation
- Situation is the location of a place relative to other places
- Situations most important for finding an unfamiliar place and for understanding a places importance, or, in other words, connection to other places, such as Interstate highways or rivers
4. Region: A unique area
- An area on earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics is a region
- Most often applied at two scales
- Spanning political states
- Constrained within one political state
A region derives its unified character through the cultural landscape- a combination cultural, religious, and physical features
"Culture is the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural landscape is the result." -Carl O. Sauer American Geographer.
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