Africa contains an significant diversity of ethnicity, religions, cultures, languages. Historically the most common division from of Africa is through religion and north south division using the Saharan Desert. North Africa has sizable Arab populations and is in close proximity to Europe. The North African states of Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, and the Sudan have majority Arab and Muslim populations. South of the Sahara you have Black-African groups, many of whom are of animists and Christian faiths, that is non-Islamic. This has created a division between the North and rest of Africa. The recent Civil War and partition of the Sudan happened for many of these exact reasons.
Geographers divide the earth using hemispheres.
Geographers divide Latin America into three main regions: Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Each region has its own unique cultural, historical, and geographical characteristics.
The physical geography of northern Africa plays a large role in the cultural divide because the environment is different. There are different resources available.
they divide the world into different cultural reasons because it helps make it easier if they group regions by language , religion,and politics.
Geographers divide the Earth into hemispheres to simplify the study of spatial relationships and to better understand the distribution of physical and cultural phenomena. Hemispheres help geographers organize and visualize data on a global scale, thereby facilitating analysis and communication of geographic information.
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they base it on landforms
Because it is large.
Longitude and Lattitude lines are often used on maps to divide and subsequently locate locations.