What is Economic Geography Video

Economic Geography

  • The study of where economic activities occur, how they vary location, and interact between places.

Subject Matters of Economic Geography

  • Location of industries

  • The benefits firms obtain by locating near each other.

  • The relationship between the environment and the economy

Branches of Economic Geography

  1. Geography of Agriculture

    • Investigates the transformation of Earth Surface through Human-Environment interaction, with a main focus on structures and agricultural landscape.

  2. Geography of Industry

    • This branch entails the position or location of a particular industry, raw materials, products, and distribution and how it affects its productivity.

  3. Geography of Internal Trade

    • The Geography of international trade studies both the patterns and theories used.

  4. Geography of Resources

    • Helps in determining the location of natural resources, its availability, and how it will satisfy human needs and wants.

  5. Geography of Transport and Communication

    • Investigates the movement and connection of people and goods while understanding the complex transportation modes

  6. Geography of Finance

    • Studies the geographic patterns of global finance, and focuses on the creation of new financial centers in the world.