Geography Analysis on the Expansion of Panglong Town

Abstract

This research focuses on four wards in Panglong Town and its environ Geography is the Scientific study of spatial pattern and process. Urban geography is a branch of geography that concentrates upon the location and spatial arrangement of towns and cities and their evolutions. Thus, the nature of loction and settlement pattern have been effect upon the expansion of Panglong Town is presented from geographical point of view. The data for this research were collected from respective departments, field observation and interviews. Then, the expansion of town was analysed by physical factors and human factors. The results that expansion of town were found in Ward (2) and (3). They can be extended from the fringe of them into new quarters.