Talk:Geographic Realms

This section is incomplete and unexplained. It does not include a true definition of the term "geographic realms." The first sentence refers to "g e o g a r p h i c h" realms. I'm assuming this is a                 spelling mistake but I don't know that this isn't a geographic term. I have not read the book by Dr. de Blij and Dr. Muller but I'm sure that it is more clear than this. For example-

-North America- -The regions are not defined. -Why are certain states in the U.S. (Wisconsin, Michigan, Montana, Colorado and Wyoming) in two different regions? -Why are Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut not in New England? -I have never heard of the Southeast defined as all of those states. They are not all similar to each other. -Canada is listed in different regions but not all of it is listed somewhere. In fact most of       Canada is missing. -Northern New Brunswick is listed twice. -Missing are northern Ontario and northern Quebec. -Also missing are Nunavut (was once the eastern part of the Northwest Territories), Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and Yukon. (Remember the gold rush.) The Canadians can't be happy to see that they have lost more than half of their land. There is             a pile of money in it for whomever can solve this mystery. -For that matter nearly 1/6th of the U.S. is missing. I know Hawaii is somewhere else so that leaves 49 states for which we have to account. Has there been another civil war? Missing are -Alaska (which must have defected with parts of Canada), -Delaware (remember the river Washington crossed?) -western Colorado, Wyoming and Montana ( a war within the states?), and -the rest of the West. (Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah and Nevada                      (Bush must have hidden it under Yucca Mountain. He doesn't want to gamble).                  Did the North American Plate break apart? Someone please find the west so I can                    finally see California.   -Will somebody please learn the correct abbreviations for the 50 states? They are the             same ones the U.S. Postal Service uses. Google "State Abbreviations" and look for the              U.S. Postal Service site. You will learn that-                     Connecticut   is CT not CN,                     Kentucky      is KY not KT,                     Pennsylvania  is PA not PN, (these are technical errors but don't lead to                            confusion as there is no state with those other abbreviations,)                             and last but certainly not least,                     Arkansas      is AR not AK  (which is the abbreviation for Alaska, a state which is nowhere near Arkansas as evidenced by our long, miserably hot summers.)(A lot of people make this mistake.)

-What is the definition of the areas in Eurasia?

-Middle East includes North Africa (O.K.) and North Africa includes West Africa making West Africa part of the Middle East. I think not. Also, notably absent are all of the countries most people think of as part of the Middle East- Turkey (left out of Europe), Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Israel. (We needn't joke about this one. We just             want peace.)  Perhaps someone intended to include all of these countries as part of               South-west Asia, but that is a big place and needs to be spelled out. Whatever the intent there is a lot of territory being covered in this category. Liberia to Turkey to Afganistan? I think not.

-Middle America- - It's O.K. if we put Mexico here even though it is on the North American continent, but then this is human geography which is not bound by continental plates and other physical geography concerns. But, - Panama is missing.

-South-East Asia- - What is Irian Jaya?

-General- - Either abbreviate or spell out (preferably) but be consistant. - Don't simply list, explain the reasoning. - This is about human geography. There are many socio-political reasons to divide continents up differently than is commonly done, but the current continents page is about physical geography. This should be listed under human geography. Dr. de Blij wrote another book that is referenced on the human geography page. By the way, the human geography page could use some expansion.

-Incidentally, I'm not editing the section myself because I haven't read the book, but I am going to the bookstore to buy Dr. de Blij's books. He's a very smart man and I am sure that there are some things he can explain to me, like what went on in North America, and why I haven't seen anything about it on CNN. WLE 20:27, 20 February 2006 (UTC)