A collaborative geographical modeling/simulating system and methods are provided for integrating virtual and physical objects. The collaborative geographical modeling/simulating system includes a geographical conceptual modeling device having a plurality of physically operable micro-geographical objects and a plurality of physically operable micro-data objects; and a collaborative control device coupled to the geographical conceptual modeling device and having a resource module having a plurality of virtual resource items and a management module to perform geographical analysis, geographical model construction, and geographical model simulation. The plurality of physically operable micro-geographical objects and the plurality of physically operable micro-data objects are associated with corresponding virtual resource items of the plurality of virtual resource items for the geographical analysis, geographical model construction, and geographical model simulation.