Geography

China protected by its geography, by the mountains to the west and the Pacific to the east 79:6.12-13

The failure of India to achieve the hegemony of Eurasia was largely a matter of topography. The inferior races could not be expelled in the south because the sea surrounded everything. 79:2.5

The configuration of continents and other land-arrangement situations are very influential in determining peace or war. 81:6.5

protection of North America by oceans allowed unmolested development. Few Urantian people has had this benefit. 81:6.5

In the Urantia Book

Geography in Jesus times

• The Mediterranean Roman Empire, the Parthian kingdom, and the adjacent peoples of Jesus’ time all held crude and primitive ideas regarding the geography of the world 121:7.12
• The subject of geography is one of the subjects that most interested young Jesus when he was a student 123:6.6

See also

• climate
• continents
• mountains
• oceans
• rivers