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Reference: education.nationalgeographic.com
Location (geography)
An example would be the longitude and latitude of a place. For instance, the
position of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela can be expressed approximately in
the WGS84 coordinate system as the location 9.80°N (latitude), 71.56°W
(longitude). It is, however, important to remember that this is just one way
to describe its position; a small number of the alternative ways can be seen
in this link: 9.80°N 71.56°W.
Absolute location, however, is a term which has little real
meaning, since any location must be expressed relative to
something else. For example, longitude is the number of
degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian, a line which has
arbitrarily been chosen to pass through Greenwich, London.
Similarly, latitude is the number of degrees north or south of
the Equator. Because latitude and longitude are expressed
relative to these lines, a position expressed in latitude and
longitude is actually a relative location
Site and situation - geographical
definition?
Site refers to the internal characteristics of a place
(house, city, country, state) that describe where it is.
Examples: coastal plain, mountain top, river delta.
Situation refers to the external characteristics (what
is nearby) that make that location attractive.
Examples: near metro area, farm land to the north,
easy highway access, regional airport.
Indonesian Map
introduction
The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands
were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its
independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of
intermittent negotiations, recurring hostilities, and UN mediation before the
Netherlands agreed to relinquish its colony. Indonesia is the world's largest
archipelagic state. Current issues include: alleviating widespread poverty,
preventing terrorism, continuing the transition to popularly-elected
governments after four decades of authoritarianism, implementing reforms of
the banking sector, addressing charges of cronyism and corruption, and
holding the military and police accountable for human rights violations.
Indonesia has been dealing with armed separatist movements in Aceh and in
Papua.
Geography Indonesia
Location: Southeastern Asia, archipelago between the Indian Ocean and
the Pacific Ocean
Geographic 5 00 S, 120 00 E
coordinates:
Map references: Southeast Asia
Area: total: 1,919,440 sq km
land: 1,826,440 sq km
water: 93,000 sq km
Area - comparative: slightly less than three times the size of Texas
Land boundaries: total: 2,830 km
border countries: East Timor 228 km, Malaysia 1,782 km, Papua
New Guinea 820 km
Grammar focus:
preposition of time in, on, at
'At,
in, on' and ''to' are used with both time and
place in English. Read the paragraph below and
learn the rules of when to use these
prepositions in the chart. Finally, take the quiz
to check your understanding.
Read the story below:
I was born in Seattle, Washington on the 19th of April in 1961.
Seattle is in the State of Washington in the United States. That
was many years ago... Now, I live in Leghorn in Italy. I work at the
British School. I sometimes go to a movie on the weekend. I meet
my friends at the movie theater at 8 o'clock or later. In the
summer, usually in August, I go home to visit my family in
America. My family and I go to the beach and relax in the sun in
the morning and in the afternoon! In the evening, we often eat at
a restaurant with our friends. Sometimes, we go to a bar at night.
Look at the chart below:
Prepositions of Time: at, on, and in
We use at to designate specific times.
The train is due at 12:15 p.m.