Population geography 1923795 219603419 2008-06-16T01:16:04Z Sardanaphalus 427947 updating link using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] [[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}} {{geo-term-stub}} [[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]]