Cultural region

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Cultural region is a term used mainly in the study of geography. Distinct cultures often do not limit their geographic coverage inside the borders of a nation state, or to smaller subdivisions of a state. To 'map' a culture, we often have to identify an actual 'cultural region', and when we do this we find that it bears little relationship to the legal borders drawn up by custom, treaties, charters or wars.

There are different kinds of cultural regions that can be delineated. A map of culture that maps 'religion & folklore' may have slightly different shape to one which, in the same region, maps 'dress and architecture'.

Contents 1 Types of Cultural Region 2 Cultural regions of the world 2.1 Cultural "spheres" 2.2 Cultural "worlds" 2.3 IGOs with cultural bonds 3 See also:

[edit] Types of Cultural Region

[edit] Cultural regions of the world

• Anglo America
• Austronesia
• Germanic Europe
• Slavic Europe
• Latin America
• Latin Europe

[edit] Cultural "spheres"

• Anglosphere
• Indosphere
• Sinosphere

[edit] Cultural "worlds"

• Arab world
• Eastern world
• Malay world
• Muslim world
• Western world

[edit] IGOs with cultural bonds

• African Union
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• Commonwealth of Nations
• European Union
• Francophonie
• Latin Union

[edit] See also:

• Regionalism
• Bioregionalism
• Spirit of place
• Cultural landscape
• Deep map
• Cultural tourism