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Location can be identified in three ways
      1. Place Names
- A Toponym is the name given to a place on Earth

•  Names derived from people of prominence, religious affiliation, physical features, or origins of its settlers

       2. Site

- Site is the physical character of a place

• Characteristics include climate, water sources, topography, vegetation, latitude, and elevation   

      3. Situation

• situation is the location of a place relative to other places
• Region: A Unique Area 

- A area on Earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristic is a region

• most often applied two scales

              1. Spanning political states

              2. Constrained within one political state

• a region derives its unified character through the cultural landscape- a combination of 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