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"Peking University Geography Teaching Series: World Cultural Geography (2nd Edition)" is compiled to train students to observe and analyze the occurrence, development and spatial distribution characteristics of cultural phenomena in the world from a geographical perspective. Specific contents include: basic research methods of world cultural geography, division of world cultural regions, world population distribution and population migration, the origin, spread and regional differences of agriculture, the origin and spread of cities, regional differences and characteristics of urban forms, the spatial distribution and interrelationships of the world's major languages, religions and races, the geographical discovery and the formation of the world colonial system, world geopolitics and the spatial structure characteristics of the world geographical system, global economic integration, urbanization phenomena and their accompanying political, economic and social issues, etc. "Peking University Geography Teaching Series: World Cultural Geography (2nd Edition)" comprehensively absorbs the contents of a large number of relevant latest textbooks and research works at home and abroad, and adopts maps, photos, charts and other forms of expression, striving to vividly and easily display the basic spatial differences and changing processes of the world's cultural geography pattern. In the arrangement of the content, the textbook pays attention to the combination of special topic introduction and comprehensive analysis, and the combination of spatial difference analysis and time change analysis. It attaches great importance to cultivating two abilities of college students, namely the ability to observe and analyze cultural phenomena in the world from a geographical and spatial perspective, and the ability to view the development and change process of cultural phenomena in the world from a time perspective.