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Dedication
Epigraph
Preface
License & Attributions
1. What is the Eastern World?
2. What is Regional Geography?
3. Cultural Geography
4. Economic Geography
5. Historical Geography
6. Physical Geography
7. Political Geography
8. Population Geography
9. Urban Geography
10. Medical Geography
11. North Africa & the Middle East (NAME)
12. North Africa & the Middle East: Regional Example - The Fertile Crescent
13. North Africa & the Middle East: Cultural Geography I - The Abrahamic Religious Hearth
14. North Africa & the Middle East: Economic Geography I - Oil
15. North Africa & the Middle East: Historical Geography I - Palestine and Israel
16. North Africa & the Middle East: Physical Geography I - Types of Deserts
17. North Africa & the Middle East: Political Geography I - Borders
18. North Africa & the Middle East: Population Geography I - Skewed Sex Ratios from Migration
19. North Africa & the Middle East: Urban Geography I - Entrepôt ~ Aden (Yemen)
20. North Africa & the Middle East: Cultural Geography II - Religious Fundamentalism
21. North Africa & the Middle East: Historical Geography II - Iraq Wars
22. North Africa & the Middle East: Physical Geography II - Water in the Desert
23. North Africa & the Middle East: Political Geography II - Border Disputes
24. North Africa & the Middle East: Population Geography II - Uncrowded Places
25. NAME: Overview
26. Sub-Saharan Africa
27. Sub-Saharan Africa: Regional Example - The Sahel
28. Sub-Saharan Africa: Cultural Geography I - Cousinage in Mali
29. Sub-Saharan Africa: Economic Geography I - The Origins of Poverty
30. Sub-Saharan Africa: Historical Geography I - Nationless States
31. Sub-Saharan Africa: Physical Geography - The Great Green Wall
32. Sub-Saharan Africa: Political Geography - The Great African War
33. Sub-Saharan Africa: Population Geography I - Infectious Disease
34. Sub-Saharan Africa: Urban Geography I - South Africa's Capital Cities
35. Sub-Saharan Africa: Cultural Geography II - Peacemaking in Burundi: The Institution of the Bashingantahe
36. Sub-Saharan Africa: Historical Geography II - South Africa
37. Sub-Saharan Africa: Overview
38. Southeast Asia (SE Asia)
39. SE Asia: Regional Example - Archipelagic
40. SE Asia: Cultural Geography I - Ethnic Separatism
41. SE Asia: Economic Geography I - Bubble Economics
42. SE Asia: Historical Geography I - SE Asia and the Cold War
43. SE Asia: Political Geography I - Market-Dominant Minorities
44. SE Asia: Population Geography I - Primate Cities
45. SE Asia: Urban Geography I - Entrepôt ~ Singapore
46. SE Asia: Cultural Geography II - Bali
47. SE Asia: Economic Geography II - Landlocked Laos
48. SE Asia: Historical Geography II - East Timor
49. SE Asia: Physical Geography I - Tonlé Sap
50. SE Asia: Political Geography II - The US, China, and SE Asia
51. Southeast Asia: Overview
52. East Asia
53. East Asia: Regional Example - Tibet
54. East Asia: Cultural Geography I - Religion in East Asia
55. East Asia: Economic Geography - Mao’s Communist China
56. East Asia: Historical Geography - Divided Korea
57. East Asia: Physical Geography I - Taklamakan Desert
58. East Asia: Political Geography I - Japan and the Kuril Islands
59. East Asia: Population Geography I - Aging Japan
60. East Asia: Urban Geography I - Entrepôt ~ Hong Kong
61. East Asia: Economic Geography - The Rise (and Fall) of China’s Market Economy
62. East Asia: Physical Geography II - Karst
63. East Asia: Political Geography II - The Two-China Dilemma
64. East Asia: Overview
65. South Asia
66. South Asia: Regional Example - Punjab
67. South Asia: Cultural Geography - Bhutan: Gross National Happiness
68. South Asia: Economic Geography I - Tourism in the Maldives
69. South Asia: Historical Geography I - West & East Pakistan
70. South Asia: Physical Geography - Monsoons
71. South Asia: Political Geography - Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
72. South Asia: Population Geog I - Proverbs and Son Preference
73. South Asia: Urban Geography I - Dhaka
74. South Asia: Cultural Geography - Religious Diversity
75. South Asia: Physical Geography - Thar Desert
76. South Asia: Political Geography - Kashmir
77. South Asia: Urban Geography II - Entrepôt ~ Kollam (India)
78. South Asia: Overview
79. Central Asia
80. Central Asia: Regional Example - Fergana Valley
81. Central Asia: Cultural Geog I - Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
82. Central Asia: Economic Geography I - The Aral Sea Debacle
83. Central Asia: Historical Geography I - Fixing the Aral Sea
84. Central Asia: Physical Geography I - Steppe
85. Central Asia: Political Geog I - Where Empires Go to Die
86. Central Asia: Population Geography I - Post-Soviet Russian Populations
87. Central Asia: Urban Geography - Entrepôt ~ Samarkand
88. Central Asia: Historical Geography II - Wakhan Corridor
89. Central Asia: Urban Geography - Nur-Sultan (Astana)
90. Central Asia: Overview
Bibliography
Contributors
Acknowledgements
The Eastern World: Daily Readings on Geography
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