geographic location
Sign in to savethumb|An icon representing the concept of location In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface. The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry. A populated place is called a settlement.
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Geographic location refers to a specific region on Earth's surface, which can be as precise as a single point or as broad as an area, and is identified with more certainty than the vaguer concept of "place." Understanding location matters because it allows us to precisely identify and refer to different regions and settlements on Earth, distinguishing them from places that are defined more by human or social characteristics than by exact geographic boundaries.
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Research
5,406,847 papers- Geographic Location Affects the Bacterial Community Composition and Diversity More than Species Identity for Tropical Tree Species.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
- Location, location, location: geographic clustering of lower-extremity amputation among Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes.Diabetes care · 2011
- Nursing Home Alzheimer's Special Care Units: Geographic Location Matters.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022
- Relationship between concentrations of elements and geographic location in Poland.Annals of agricultural and environmental medicine : AAEM · 2021
- Geographic location and clinical trial knowledge, invitation, and participation among adults in the United States.Contemporary clinical trials · 2026
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7 sectionsContents
- Types
- Locality
- Relative location
- Absolute location
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|An icon representing the concept of location In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface. The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry. A populated place is called a settlement.
==Types== ===Locality=== A locality, settlement, or populated place is likely to have a well-defined name but a boundary that is not well defined, but rather varies by context. London, for instance, has a legal boundary, but this is unlikely to completely match with general usage. An area within a town, such as Covent Garden in London, also almost always has some ambiguity as to its extent. In geography, location is considered to be more precise than "place".