Geography brain-teasers

You are used to geography quizzes, right? What is the capital of … Name three rivers … and so on. Boooo!!

Down with those kinds of quizzes, I say! You are more capable than just memorizing things. Yes!

Medical Geography

My guru used to tell me: “Geography brings things together like no other discipline can. Within geography, the sub-discipline of medical geography does this more than any other.”

Today, we take a brief look at medical geography (also known as ‘health geography’).

Lat-long on a flat surface!

12–13 September 2013.

Class 7 kids of Shriram Matriculation School (SMS) gather to learn about latitudes and longitudes, grids, and how to give the location of places using coordinates.

Edward J Snowden’s geographies

What do borders mean in this, The Age of the Internet? Borders are not just lines on a map or a barbed wire fence on the ground. Here’s a story of signals, territorial geography, and a whistleblower’s journey with his luggage of secrets.

Troublesome geographies of centrifugal forces

States, even countries, often break up into smaller units. There are many demands for smaller states in India. Here are some geography points about this phenomenon.

Fruits from afar!

Big ships. Deep waters. Wide channels. Fruits from afar. More choices. The changing meaning of boundaries. Wonder what geography has to do with all this? Here is but a mere glimpse!

Movement is a major theme in geography. It includes the movement of materials (raw…

Geography lite!

A train is a geography laboratory in interesting ways. Explore!“Heh-heh-heh”

“Heh-heh-heh”

“Yourgoodnamesir?”

“Er, um … Chandrashekhar.”

Water underfoot!

In his beautiful poem har desh mein tu, Sant Tukdoji says, “saagar se uthaa baadal ban ke / baadal se phutaa jal ho kar ke / phir nehar banaayaa nadiyaa gahari / tere bhinna prakaar tu ek hi hai.” (You arose from the oceans as clouds / You fell from the clouds becoming rainwater / Then You made…

Geography resources

Geography-related resources on the internet are vast. We present a few selected online resources on this page. These include printable, downloadable, and interactive materials. Only English language materials are included here.