Every case study in the course, on one map. Geography is a spatial subject; your evidence should have a location you can point to.
Robinson projection · graticule at 30° · select a marker for detail
Every case has its own page with the ten-part record: six sections filled in, four for you to complete. Select a row to locate it, or open the record.
| Case | Unit | Why it is on the map | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rasuwa District Nepal / Gyirong County, Tibet | In the news | 26 August 2026: a glacier collapse in Tibet became a debris flow and flash flood that crossed the border into Nepal. | Open → |
| Iran Islamic Republic of Iran | Model case study | The class model. Mountains, oil, the Strait of Hormuz and a young population — geography as a constraint on power. | Open → |
| Japan Japan | Changing Population | A super-aged society: the population is both old and falling. | Open → |
| Niger Republic of the Niger | Changing Population | One of the youngest populations in the world, in one of the harshest environments. | Open → |
| China People's Republic of China | Changing Population | From the one-child policy to pro-natalist incentives inside a single generation. | Open → |
| Mexico – United States border Mexico / United States | Changing Population | One of the largest sustained migration corridors in the world, and heavily politicised. | Open → |
| Syria Syrian Arab Republic | Changing Population | Forced displacement at scale, reshaping populations across the region and Europe. | Open → |
| France French Republic | Changing Population | Long-running pro-natalist policy, and a fertility rate that still sits below replacement. | Open → |
| Bangladesh People's Republic of Bangladesh | Global Climate | A densely populated delta where modest sea level rise displaces very large numbers. | Open → |
| Tuvalu Tuvalu | Global Climate | A low-lying atoll state facing the loss of habitable territory within a lifetime. | Open → |
| Greenland ice sheet Greenland | Global Climate | Mass loss measured directly from satellites — one of the clearest signals in the climate record. | Open → |
| Netherlands Kingdom of the Netherlands | Global Climate | Large-scale engineered adaptation, funded and maintained over decades. | Open → |
| Sahel Sahel belt, West Africa | Global Climate | Drought, land degradation and contested explanations for both. | Open → |
| Colorado River basin Southwestern United States | Resource Consumption | A river allocated to more users than it can supply, now under a federally imposed framework. | Open → |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo DR Congo | Resource Consumption | Supplies most of the world's cobalt while capturing very little of its value. | Open → |
| Iceland Iceland | Resource Consumption | Almost all electricity and heating from geothermal and hydro, because of where it sits. | Open → |
| Qatar State of Qatar | Resource Consumption | One of the largest ecological footprints per person anywhere. | Open → |
| Punjab Punjab, India | Resource Consumption | Green Revolution gains bought with groundwater that is now being drawn down. | Open → |
| Orlando Orlando, Florida | Leisure, Tourism & Sport | Our own city: a regional economy built substantially on a single visitor industry. | Open → |
| Venice Venice, Italy | Leisure, Tourism & Sport | Visitor numbers far beyond what the built environment and residents can absorb. | Open → |
| Costa Rica Republic of Costa Rica | Leisure, Tourism & Sport | Ecotourism as a deliberate national development strategy, with mixed results. | Open → |
| Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Leisure, Tourism & Sport | The 2016 Olympics: promised regeneration, delivered debt and disused venues. | Open → |
| Maldives Republic of Maldives | Leisure, Tourism & Sport | Enclave resort tourism where much of the revenue never reaches the local economy. | Open → |
The second optional theme has no cases here because the theme has not been chosen. Once the class votes, three or four locations get added for the winning theme. See Option ?.
