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  2. Geography of Andhra Pradesh - Wikipedia

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    Topography of Andhra Pradesh and surrounding area. Andhra Pradesh lies between 12°41' and 19.07°N latitude and 77° and 84°40'E longitude, and is bordered by Telangana to the north and west, Chhattisgarh to the north-west, Orissa to the north, the Bay of Bengal to the east, Tamil Nadu to the south and Karnataka to the southwest and west.

  3. Advanced Placement - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Placement ( AP) [4] is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board. AP offers undergraduate university-level curricula and examinations to high school students. Colleges and universities in the US and elsewhere may grant placement and course credit to students who obtain qualifying scores on the examinations.

  4. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    A peak or projection from the top of a hill or mountain, or any rounded protrusion of land, especially a small but prominent or isolated hill with steep sides; a boulder or an area of resistant rock protruding from the side of a hill or mountain. The term is used primarily in the southern United States. [5] knoll.

  5. Metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. [1] [2] A metropolitan area usually comprises multiple principal cities, jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships ...

  6. Surroundings - Wikipedia

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    Surroundings. Surroundings, or environs is an area around a given physical or geographical point or place. The exact definition depends on the field. Surroundings can also be used in geography (when it is more precisely known as vicinity, or vicinage) and mathematics, as well as philosophy, with the literal or metaphorically extended definition.

  7. Central place theory - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Central place theory is an urban geographical theory that seeks to explain the number, size and range of market services in a commercial system or human settlements in a residential system. [1] It was introduced in 1933 to explain the spatial distribution of cities across the landscape. [2] The theory was first analyzed by German ...

  8. Megaregions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The megaregions of the United States are eleven regions of the United States that contain two or more roughly adjacent urban metropolitan areas that, through commonality of systems, including transportation, economies, resources, and ecologies, experience blurred boundaries between the urban centers, perceive and act as if they are a ...

  9. AP Human Geography - Wikipedia

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    Russian Language and Culture. v. t. e. Advanced Placement ( AP) Human Geography (also known as AP Human Geo, AP Geography, APHG, AP HuGe, AP HuG, AP Human, or HGAP) is an Advanced Placement social studies course in human geography for high school, usually freshmen students in the US, culminating in an exam administered by the College Board. [1 ...