Strategic geography
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Strategic geography is concerned with the control of, or access to, spatial areas that have an impact on the
security and prosperity of
nations. Spatial areas that concern strategic geography change with human needs and development; recent examples of spatial areas include oil fields which affect the prosperity of a nation or the Gaza strip. This field is a subset of
human geography, itself a subset of the more general study of
geography. It is also related to
geostrategy. For example,
Cairo was built on the banks of the
Nile river. Not only did this make for fertile land, but easy access to the rest of
Ancient Egypt.
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