Focus on Geography

A magazine devoted to geographical information, written for the general public by academic and professional geographers. Content includes feature articles, book reviews, in-depth theme sections, maps and photos, and special country issues. An official publication of the American Geographical Society (AGS).

Railroad remnants: passenger depots in Eastern Kentucky.
March 22, 2008

The Battle of Richmond Civil War Park and reenactment: a living histor...
March 22, 2008

Mesoscale weather and climate observations in Kentucky for societal be...
March 22, 2008

The rise and fall of a confederate state capital: Bowling Green, Kentu...
March 22, 2008

Development of a Kentucky Snowfall Impact Scale.
March 22, 2008

The age of cryopolitics.
December 22, 2007

The expanding role of the Amish in America's dairy industry.
December 22, 2007

Types of mountain ranges in the rocky mountain region.
December 22, 2007

Photojournal: Cuba.
December 22, 2007

Costa Rica's churches: keys to place identity, navigation, and history...
December 22, 2007

Wetlands as flood control: the case of the La Crosse River Marsh.
September 22, 2007

Tourism and funerals: an Indonesian experience.
September 22, 2007

Food garden capacity and population growth: a case in Papua New Guinea...
September 22, 2007

Great geographers: John Wesley Powell.
September 22, 2007

Sri Pada: sacred pilgrimage mountain of Sri Lanka.(Adam's Peak)
September 22, 2007

Photojournal: Macau.
September 22, 2007

Hurricanes in Toronto: distance, identity, and the Jamaican diaspora.
June 22, 2007

Photojournal: Venezuela.(City overview)
June 22, 2007

How real are Red America and Blue America?
June 22, 2007

Lighthouse symbolism in the American landscape.
June 22, 2007

The legacies of Captain John Smith.
June 22, 2007

Country name calling: the case of Iran vs. Persia.
March 22, 2007

Photojournal: the changing face of contemporary Iran.
March 22, 2007

Iran: an old civilization and a new nation state.
March 22, 2007

Editor's note.
March 22, 2007

Melamid in Iran: an American Geographical Society photographic legacy....
March 22, 2007

Timeline of important events in Iran, 8,000 BCE to the present.(Chrono...
March 22, 2007

Urban growth and metropolitan sprawl in a small metropolitan area.
December 22, 2006

Geological heritage in Chinese Parks: balancing protection and develop...
December 22, 2006

Errata from previous issues.(Correction notice)
December 22, 2006

Traveling Riverside Blues: landscapes of Robert Johnson in the Yazoo-M...
December 22, 2006

Photojournal: Turkmenistan.
December 22, 2006

Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya: diversity within unity.
December 22, 2006

Hangzhou: heaven on earth.
September 22, 2006

Photographic journal: the Great River Road in the Upper Mississippi Ri...
September 22, 2006

The Trans-Cascade Timberlands.
September 22, 2006

Homage to temptation: a trip into Jamaica's coffee country.
September 22, 2006

Athens Farmers' Market: evolving dynamics and hidden benefits to a Sou...
September 22, 2006

Farm workers, agricultural transformation, and land reform in Western ...
June 22, 2006

The highlands of contemporary Guatemala.
June 22, 2006

Photographic journal Palau.
June 22, 2006

Great Geographers: George Perkins Marsh redux.(Biography)
June 22, 2006

Conflicts in marine protected area management.
March 22, 2006

Addendum.(Correction Notice)
March 22, 2006

Tsunamis: how safe is the United States?
March 22, 2006

Contested Ocean spaces: Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.
March 22, 2006

Photographic journal culture in nature: reclaiming place after Katrina...
March 22, 2006

Tourism on top of the world.
March 22, 2006

From communism to the World Trade Organization: the remarkable transfo...
September 22, 2005

Digital aspirations: Malaysia and the multimedia super corridor.
September 22, 2005

Rapid property transactions and price changes: an exploratory study in...
September 22, 2005

Photographic journal Kyrgyzstan.
September 22, 2005

Great geographers: George Perkins Marsh.
September 22, 2005

Sick babies, few choices: a historical geography of medical care and f...
December 22, 2004

Earthquake hazards in Taiwan--the September 1999 Chichi earthquake.
December 22, 2004

Photographic journal Chengdu and Jiu Zhai Gou, Sichuan Province, China...
December 22, 2004

Dynamic geographic processes in the coastal bays region of Maryland.
December 22, 2004

Great geographers: Arthur H. Robinson.(Obituary)
December 22, 2004

Sacrificial limbs: can the trees save us?(global climate change, green...
December 22, 2004

Biodiversity conservation and the struggle for the Nanda Devi Biospher...
June 22, 2004

Myanmar days: the qualms of a geographer in a pariah state.
June 22, 2004

Geoarchaeology of the Qumran archaeological site, Israel.
June 22, 2004

Prairie mountains--unnoticed, unknown, but not unimportant.
June 22, 2004

Resettlement in Newfoundland: again.
June 22, 2004

Photographic journal: travel through Spain.
June 22, 2004

The Soufriere Hills volcano and the postmodern landscapes of Montserra...
March 22, 2004

Great Geographers: Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley.
March 22, 2004

Central Washington's emerging Hispanic landscape.
March 22, 2004

The expeditionary eye: reconstructing the first photographs of Machu P...
March 22, 2004

Marchland.
March 22, 2004

The market at Tlacolula.
March 22, 2004

Greece.(cultural landscape of Greece)
March 22, 2003

Images and impressions of Greece through travels.
March 22, 2003