Cultural Geography 

examples

• language
• religion
• ethnic heritage

Language

•  arabic unites the arab world
• spanish unites the hispanic world
• brazil is the only south american nation that speaks portuguese instead of spanish
• canada is bilingual (french & english offical language)
• switzerland has multiple languages
• english is considered the worlds language
• used for most business transactions around the world (lingua franca)

Ethnic heritage

• in yogoslavia, many ethnic groups were made into one country ( serbs, croats, bosniaos, albanians)
• when strong leadership died out, the different group fought a very bloody civil war & now they all have seperate countries
• the united states & switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries
• korea & japan have primarily one ethnic group

Religion

• can be both unifying and disunifying force
• 5 major religions in the world today
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Judaism
• Islam
• Christianity 
• shiites and sunnis

• religion has over millions of followers all believing the same thing
• can also be a dividing force around the world