Library of Congress Classification:Class G, subclass G -- Geography (General). Atlases. Maps
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Subclass G: Geography. Atlases. Maps is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification
system under Class G -- Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
. This article describes subclass G.
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Library of Congress Classification
The Library of Congress Classification is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress. It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U.S. and several other countries; for example, Australia and Taiwan, R.O.C. It is not to be confused with the Library of...
system under Class G -- Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
Library of Congress Classification:Class G -- Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
Class G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system. This article outlines the subclasses of Class G.GGeography ; Atlases; MapsGAMathematical geography; Cartography...
. This article describes subclass G.
G
- 1-922..........GeographyGeographyGeography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
(General)- 65-69..........GeographerGeographerA geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
s - 70-70.6.......... PhilosophyPhilosophy of GeographyPhilosophy of geography is that subfield of philosophy which deals with epistemological, metaphysical, and axiological issues in geography.The Society for Philosophy and Geography was founded in 1997 by Andrew Light, a philosopher currently at George Mason University, and Jonathan Smith a...
. Relation to other topics. Methodology - 80-99..........History of geographyHistory of geographyThe history of geography includes various histories of geography which have differed over time and between different cultural and political groups. In more recent developments, geography has become a distinct academic discipline. 'Geography' derives from the from Greek - geographia,, a literal...
- 100.5-108.5..........ToponymyToponymyToponymy is the scientific study of place names , their origins, meanings, use and typology. The word "toponymy" is derived from the Greek words tópos and ónoma . Toponymy is itself a branch of onomastics, the study of names of all kinds...
(Including gazetteerGazetteerA gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names , used in conjunction with a map or a full atlas. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup of a country, region, or continent as well as the social...
s, geographic names and terms) - 140..........Great cities of the world
- 141..........Historical geographyHistorical geographyHistorical geography is the study of the human, physical, fictional, theoretical, and "real" geographies of the past. Historical geography studies a wide variety of issues and topics. A common theme is the study of the geographies of the past and how a place or region changes through time...
- 142..........Aerial geography
- 149-180..........Travel. Voyages and travels (General)
- 154.9-155.8..........Travel and state. Tourism
- 200-336..........History of discoveries, explorationExplorationExploration is the act of searching or traveling around a terrain for the purpose of discovery of resources or information. Exploration occurs in all non-sessile animal species, including humans...
s, and travel - 369-503..........Special voyages and travels
- 521-539..........Adventures, shipwrecks, buried treasure, etc.
- 540-550..........Seafaring life, ocean travel, etc.
- 575-890..........ArcticArcticThe Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless permafrost...
and AntarcticAntarcticThe Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...
regions - 905-910..........TropicsTropicsThe tropics is a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator. It is limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere at approximately N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at S; these latitudes correspond to the axial tilt of the Earth...
(General) - 912-922........... NorthernNorthern HemisphereThe Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator—the word hemisphere literally means “half sphere”. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator...
and Southern HemisphereSouthern HemisphereThe Southern Hemisphere is the part of Earth that lies south of the equator. The word hemisphere literally means 'half ball' or "half sphere"...
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- 65-69..........Geographer
- 1000-3122..........AtlasAtlasAn atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a map of Earth or a region of Earth, but there are atlases of the other planets in the Solar System. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats...
es- 1000-1000.5..........Atlases of the moon, planets, etc.
- 1001-1046..........World atlases. Atlases of the Earth
- 1050-1052..........Northern and Southern Hemispheres
- 1053..........Tropics. Torrid ZoneTorrid ZoneTorrid Zone is a 1940 adventure film starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien.-Plot summary:Steve Case has to deal with trouble at his tropical fruit company's Central American banana plantation...
- 1054-1055..........Polar regionPolar regionEarth's polar regions are the areas of the globe surrounding the poles also known as frigid zones. The North Pole and South Pole being the centers, these regions are dominated by the polar ice caps, resting respectively on the Arctic Ocean and the continent of Antarctica...
s. Frigid Zone - 1059-1061..........Maritime atlases (General)
- 1100-3102..........By region or country
- 1100-1779..........AmericaAmericaAmerica usually refers to either:* The Americas, a landmass comprising North America and South America* The United States, a country in North AmericaAmerica may also refer to:- Other locations :* América, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina...
s. Western HemisphereWestern HemisphereThe Western Hemisphere or western hemisphere is mainly used as a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian and east of the Antimeridian , the other half being called the Eastern Hemisphere.In this sense, the western hemisphere consists of the western portions...
- 1105-1692..........North AmericaNorth AmericaNorth America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
- 1110-1114..........GreenlandGreenlandGreenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...
- 1115-(1193)..........CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
- 1200-1534.24..........United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
- 1535-1537.......... Caribbean areaCaribbeanThe Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
- 1540-1542..........Latin AmericaLatin AmericaLatin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
(General) - 1545-1549..........MexicoMexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
- 1550-(1594)..........Central AmericaCentral AmericaCentral America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...
- 1600-1692.......... West IndiesCaribbeanThe Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
- 1110-1114..........Greenland
- 1700-1779..........South AmericaSouth AmericaSouth America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
- 1105-1692..........North America
- 1780-2799..........Eastern HemisphereEastern HemisphereThe Eastern Hemisphere, also Eastern hemisphere or eastern hemisphere, is a geographical term for the half of the Earth that is east of the Prime Meridian and west of 180° longitude. It is also used to refer to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia, vis-à-vis the Western Hemisphere, which includes...
. EurasiaEurasiaEurasia is a continent or supercontinent comprising the traditional continents of Europe and Asia ; covering about 52,990,000 km2 or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres...
, AfricaAfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, etc.- 1791-2196..........EuropeEuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
- 2110-2196.......... Former Soviet RepublicsPost-Soviet statesThe post-Soviet states, also commonly known as the Former Soviet Union or former Soviet republics, are the 15 independent states that split off from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its dissolution in December 1991...
. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). Russia (Empire)Russian EmpireThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
- 2110-2196.......... Former Soviet Republics
- 2200-2444.84..........AsiaAsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
- 2445-2739..........AfricaAfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
- 2740-2799..........AustralasiaAustralasiaAustralasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes...
- 1791-2196..........Europe
- 2800-3064..........OceanOceanAn ocean is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas.More than half of this area is over 3,000...
s (General) - 3100-3102..........Antarctica
- 1100-1779..........America
- 3122..........Atlases of imaginary, literary, and mythological regions, etc., A-Z
- 3160-3171..........Globes
- 3180-9980..........Maps
- 3180-3182..........Universe. Solar system
- 3190-3191..........Celestial maps
- 3195-3197..........Moon
- 3200-3202..........World. Earth
- 3210-3221..........Northern and Southern Hemispheres
- 3240-3241..........Tropics. Torrid Zone
- 3250-3251..........Temperate Zone
- 3260-3272..........Polar regions. Frigid Zone
- 3290-9880..........By region or country
- 3290-5667..........Americas. Western Hemisphere
- 3300-5184..........North America
- 3380-3384..........Greenland
- 3400-(3612)..........Canada
- 3700-4384..........United States
- 4390-4392..........Caribbean area
- 4410-4763..........Mexico
- 4800-4874..........Central America
- 4900-5184..........West Indies
- 5200-5667..........South America
- 3300-5184..........North America
- 5670-8904..........Eastern Hemisphere. Eurasia, Africa, etc.
- 5700-7342..........Europe
- 7000-7342..........Former Soviet Republics. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). Russia (Empire)
- 7400-8198.54..........Asia
- 8200-8904.........Africa
- 5700-7342..........Europe
- 8950-9084..........Australasia
- 9095-9794..........Oceans (General)
- 9800-9804..........Antarctica
- 9900-9980..........Unlocalized maps
- 3290-5667..........Americas. Western Hemisphere