Population geography
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[[Image:Population density.png|thumb|300px|Map of world population density as of 1994.]]
'''Population geography''' is a division of [[human geography]]. It is the study of the ways in which spatial variations in the distribution, composition, migration, and growth of populations are related to the nature of places. Population geography involves demography in a geographical perspective. It focuses on the characteristics of population distributions that change in a spatial context. Examples can be shown through population density maps. A few types of maps that show the spatial layout of population are chloropleth, isoline, and dot maps.
Demography studies:
* Study of people in their spatial distribution and density
* Increase or decrease in population numbers
* The movements and mobility of populations
* Occupational Structure
* Grouping of people in settlements
* The way from the geographical character of places e.g. settlement patterns
* The way in which places in turn react to population phenomena e.g. [[immigration]]
All of the above are looked at over space and time.
'''N.B.'''
The boundary between population geography and [[demography]] is becoming more and more blurred.
{{Human geography}}
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[[Category:Demography]]
[[Category:Human geography]]
[[Category:Population]]
[[de:Bevölkerungsgeografie]]
[[nl:Bevolkingsgeografie]]
[[ja:人口地理学]]
[[fi:Väestömaantiede]]
[[zh:人口地理学]]