Region+1

=Marines / Location / Human Environment Interaction / Place / Movement=

Formal
The biggest formal landscapes in Vietnam I would say are Mekong River Delta, Red River, Red River Delta, Red River Lowlands, and the mountains. Afghanistan has the Pamir Mountains, Karakorum Mountains, Himalayas, Amu Darya, Kabul River, the Harirud and Hilmand. Iraq has the Euphrates river, Tigris River, Syrian Desert, northeastern highlands, and the alluvial plain. There is a river involved in all three of these nations key formals landscapes. Iraq as shown above had the Tigris, and Euphrates, and Afghanistan had the Kabul River. Vietnam has the Red River, Mekong River, and plus the Deltas that come with them. All three also have mountains, however in Vietnam compared to Iraq, and Afghanistan it is not as important.

Functional
Iraq by far has more human made landscapes, like airports, buildings, and so on. It is like that because Afghanistan the fighting is getting worse, plus it is almost all mountains, and air fields need to be flat in order to land cleanly. Vietnam however I would say has more functional regions than both. I say that because it is bigger, and has more major cities than Iraq, and Afghanistan do. Normally air fields, New Paper services are found in City's, so it just makes sense. Also during the Vietnam war we controlled the cities, so the air fields would have stay in-tact so our planes could lands cleanly and safely. Vietnam also was a colony so it had the materials, and source of revenue to build the services up, but in Iraq, and Afghanistan it was a dictatorship, and a militia group ruling the entire country.

Vernacular
==== The people of the countries of Iraq, and Afghanistan did revolt more than once, but was put down. They revolted because of how they were treated and wanted more hospitals, libraries, air ports, and so on. Vietnam was a different story it was communist. They had the goal to build all that stuff to better the society. That is what communism is originally about, just a attempt to create a classless society where all are happy. The other two had no choice in what they did, and could be killed at any time. They had a different view of the regions in the country. The communists used what they could, and the people in Iraq, and Afghanistan often moved to get a better place to live, and get farther away from people telling them what to do.

Conclusion
The way people see the regions in each country is different. In Iraq and Afghanistan the sight of a large source of water like the Red River Delta, and Mekong River Delta would delight them hugely. The openness and dry hot climate would not look good the the people of Vietnam, who are used to water, moist climate, and forests.

References (Dylan Hein, 2010)
