branch of geography that researches the states of the world (borders, governments, population, etc.)
Political geography is the field of
human geography that is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of
political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures. Conventionally political geography adopts a three scale structure for the purposes of analysis with the study of
the state at the centre, above this is the study of
international relations (or
geopolitics), and below it is the study of localities. The primary concerns of the sub-discipline can be summarised as the inter-relationships between people, state, and territory.
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