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A metageography is the collective geographical imagination of a society, the spatial framework through which people order their knowledge of the world. It provides the geographical structures that constitute unexamined discourses pervading all social interpretation.
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Metageography is the study or analysis of geographic information and themes across various disciplines or perspectives. It explores how different people or groups perceive and interpret geographical spaces, often with a focus on understanding diverse cultural, historical, and social meanings associated with landscapes or regions.
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Critical metageography asserts among other ideas that mapping the world is highly?
subjective and influenced by power dynamics, cultural biases, and political agendas. It highlights how traditional cartography can perpetuate colonial ideologies and marginalize certain communities, emphasizing the importance of considering multiple perspectives and alternative mapping tools. This approach challenges the notion of neutral, objective mapping and calls for a more inclusive and diverse representation of landscapes and people.
How big does an area of land have to be to be considered a continent?
Continents are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria.Conventionally, "continents are understood to be large, continuous, discrete masses of land, ideally separated by expanses of water."[1] Many of the seven most commonly recognized continents identified by convention are not discrete landmasses separated by water. The criterion "large" leads to arbitrary classification: Greenland, with a surface area of 2,166,086 square kilometres (836,330 sq mi) is considered the world's largest island, while Australia, at 7,617,930 square kilometres (2,941,300 sq mi) is deemed to be a continent. Likewise, the ideal criterion that each be a continuous landmass is often disregarded by the inclusion of the continental shelf and oceanic islands, and contradicted by classifying North and South America as two continents; and/or Asia, Europe and Africa as three continents, with no natural separation by water. This anomaly reaches its extreme if the continuous land mass of Europe and Asia is considered to constitute two continents. The Earth's major landmasses are washed upon by a single, continuous world ocean, which is divided into a number of principal oceanic components by the continents and various geographic criteria.[2][3]References and notes^ Lewis, Martin W.; Kären E. Wigen (1997). The Myth of Continents: a Critique of Metageography. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 21. ISBN 0-520-20742-4, ISBN 0-520-20743-2.^ "http://www.answers.com/Ocean#Encyclopedia". The Columbia Encyclopedia (2006). New York: Columbia University Press.^ "Distribution of land and water on the planet." UN Atlas of the Oceans (2004).
