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Vernacular geography : ウィキペディア英語版 | Vernacular geography Vernacular geography is the sense of place that is revealed in ordinary people's language.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Research: Vernacular Geography )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tools for the web-based GIS mapping of 'fuzzy' vernacular geography )〕 Current research by the Ordnance Survey is attempting to understand the way people talk about their spatial environment and say where things are within it. It is understood that people commonly describe space in terms of area or place names and also landmarks, streets, open spaces, water bodies, landforms, fields, woods, and many other topological features. These commonly used descriptive terms do not necessarily use the official or current names for features; and often these concepts of places don't have clear, rigid boundaries. For example, sometimes the same name may refer to more than one feature, and sometimes people in a locality use more than one name for the same feature. When people refer to geographical regions in a vernacular form they are commonly referred to as imprecise regions. Regions can include areas of a country such as the American Midwest, the British Midlands, the Swiss Alps, the south east of England and southern California. Commonly used descriptions of areas of cities such as a city's downtown district, New York's Upper East Side, London's square mile or the Latin Quarter of Paris can also be viewed as imprecise regions. ==Vernacular region== Beyond "vernacular geography," a "vernacular region" is a distinctive area where the inhabitants collectively consider themselves interconnected by a shared history, mutual interests, and a common identity. Such regions are "intellectual inventions" and a form of shorthand to identify things, people, and places. Vernacular regions reflect a "sense of place," but rarely coincide with established jurisdictional borders.〔(George H. ) "Whence Siouxland?" ''Book Remarks'' (City Public Library ), May 1991.〕 Examples of vernacular regions in the United States include Tidewater, also known as Hampton Roads, Siouxland, and the Tri-City area of Batavia, Geneva, and St. Charles, Illinois.
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