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Also Known As	ethno-geographic area • culture province • cultural area

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Map of North America divided by red boundary lines into major indigenous culture areas, including American Arctic, American Subarctic, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Great Basin, California, Southwest, Plains, Northeast, and Southeast, covering regions from Alaska and northern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.

Color-coded thematic map of Europe showing the distribution of major ethnic culture areas, with distinct regions representing groups such as Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Romance, Baltic, Finno-Ugric, and others, as indicated by the legend at the bottom. Boundaries highlight cultural rather than political divisions.

Carolus Linnaeus

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Topics

desi cultural geography Ethnography What Is the Bible Belt?Kulturkreis region Age-area hypothesis Culture social change city social structure suburb town village dimensions of cultural variability social equilibrium time zone education

Key People

Clark Wissler

Clark Wissler

American anthropologist