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Stuart Elden is a British political geographer whose work connects geography with political theory, philosophy, and intellectual history. His 2013 book The Birth of Territory traces how territory emerged as a political and conceptual category through legal, mathematical, theological, and philosophic...

Anssi Paasi is a Finnish geographer associated with the University of Oulu whose research focuses on regions, borders, territories, identities, and nationalism. He is particularly known for theorizing how regions become institutionalized through territorial boundaries, symbols, organizations, and sh...

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in 1848, ended the Mexican-American War and significantly redrew the map of North America. The agreement compelled Mexico to cede over half of its national territory, including modern-day California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of New Mexico and Colorado,...

The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, negotiated by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and Spanish minister Luis de Onís, transferred Florida to the United States and established a transcontinental boundary from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific.

Letterpress is an asynchronous, two-player mobile word game created by developer Loren Brichter under his company Atebits and released for iOS in 2012. Players take turns forming words from a five-by-five grid of letters, attempting to claim tiles by changing their color while preventing the opponen...

Steve Herbert is an American human geographer whose research examines policing, law, territorial control, and urban social life. At the University of Washington, he has held appointments in geography and law, societies, and justice, reflecting the interdisciplinary character of his work. His scholar...

David Delaney is an American legal geographer whose work examines how law and legal categories operate through spatial concepts such as territory, property, and boundary. He is the author of Territory: A Short Introduction and Race and Place: A Legal Geography of Race, Slavery, and Freedom, among ot...

The Gadsden Purchase Treaty of 1853, negotiated by US minister James Gadsden, acquired roughly 30,000 square miles from Mexico for $10 million to facilitate a southern transcontinental railroad route.

Run an Empire is a location-based mobile game that records walking and running through a phone’s GPS system. The game converts movement through real-world streets and paths into territory that players can claim and contest on a map. It combines exercise tracking with strategic decisions about routes...

Miss Guam USA is a beauty-pageant title and competition associated with Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific. The event selects a representative from Guam to compete in the Miss USA pageant, giving the territory a place within that national pageant system. It...

Word Domination is a competitive mobile word game built around real-time matches between players. Participants form words from letter tiles and use them to score points while competing for control of spaces on a shared board. The game is intended for players who like quick multiplayer word challenge...

Miss US Virgin Islands USA is the regional pageant responsible for choosing the delegate who will represent the United States Virgin Islands at Miss USA.