The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography (Hardcover, 8)

Contents xv

1 Introduction: World Regional Geography 3

2 The North American Realm 35

3 The Middle American Realm 67

4 The South American Realm 101

5 The European Realm 137

6 The Russian/Central Asian Realm 185

7 The North African/Southwest Asian Realm 221

8 The Subsaharan African Realm 265

9 The South Asian Realm 309

10 The East Asian Realm 351

11 The Southeast Asian Realm 395

12 The Austral Realm 433

13 The Pacific Realm and Polar Regions 451

Appendix Metric (Standard International [SI]) and Customary Units and Their Conversions A-1

Glossary G-1

Index I-1