BASIC Geography



BASIC Geography

ver. 1.30

Business 187 assumes students have learned some basic geography in middle school and high school, and from reading periodicals, exploring the Web, and talking to friends. This sheet lists nations, cities, etc., whose locations I will assume you know. If you don’t know where they are, you can the countries in a printed atlas or the web site . (Clicking on the continent or region that contains a city or nation listed below on the main sitesatlas world map will usually bring up a map on which you can find what you’re looking for.) Using one of the excellent atlases in the Martin Luther King library is even better. If you have trouble finding anything, please see the instructor.

|Nation |City |

|On the continent of North America | |

|Canada |Toronto |

| |Montreal |

| |Vancouver |

|Mexico |Mexico City |

| | |

|On the continent of South America | |

|Brazil |Rio de Janeiro |

| |Sao Paulo |

|Argentina |Buenos Aires |

| |

|Note: “Latin America” includes all nations of North and South America that speak Spanish or Portuguese (two languages closely |

|related to Latin, the language of ancient Rome). Thus Latin America includes Mexico and almost all countries to the south of it, |

|plus some nations (Cuba) to the east of it in the Caribbean Sea. |

| |

|On the continent of Europe | |

|England |London |

|France |Paris |

|Spain |Madrid |

|Italy |Rome |

| |Milan |

|Germany |Berlin |

| |Frankfurt |

|Sweden | |

|Russia (in both Europe and Asia) |Moscow |

| | |

|On the continent of Asia | |

|Turkey (in both Europe and Asia) |Istanbul |

|Israel |Jerusalem |

|Saudi Arabia |Mecca |

|Iraq |Baghdad |

| |

|Note: Turkey, Israel, Iraq, and Iran in Asia together with Egypt in Africa and nearby countries are in a region often called the |

|Middle East (it’s to the east of the U.S. and most of Europe, but not as far east as India, China, or Japan.) |

|Pakistan | |

|India |New Delhi |

|Bangladesh | |

|China |Beijing |

| |Shanghai |

| |Hong Kong |

|Taiwan[1] | |

|Thailand |Bangkok |

|Vietnam | |

|Korea, North (a communist country) | |

|Korea, South (a capitalist country) |Seoul |

|Japan |Tokyo |

|Indonesia |Jakarta |

|Philippines |Manila |

| | |

|On the continent of Africa | |

|Egypt |Cairo |

|South Africa | |

| | |

|Australia (a nation that is also a continent) |Sydney |

| |Melbourne |

| | |

|New Zealand (located southeast of Australia in the Pacific Ocean) | |

| | |

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[1] Taiwan is considered a province of China, but it has a separate, democratic capitalist, government

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