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What Is Geography

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Geography (from Ancient Greekγεωγραφία geōgraphía;

combining gê'Earth' and gráphō 'write') is the study of the lands,


features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.[1] Geography is an
all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of Earth
and its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects
are, but also how they have changed and come to be. While
geography is specific to Earth, many concepts can be applied more
broadly to other celestial bodies in the field of planetary science.
[2]
Geography has been called "a bridge between natural
science and social sciencedisciplines."[3]

Origins of many of the concepts in geography can be traced to


Greek Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who may have coined the term
"geographia" (c. 276 BC – c. 195/194 BC).[4] The first recorded use of
the word γεωγραφία was as the title of a book by Greek
scholar Claudius Ptolemy(100 – 170 AD).[1] This work created the so-
called "Ptolemaic tradition" of geography, which included "Ptolemaic
cartographic theory."[5] However, the concepts of geography (such
as cartography) date back to the earliest attempts to understand
the world spatially, with the earliest example of an attempted world
map dating to the 9th century BCE in ancient Babylon.[6] The history
of geography as a discipline spans cultures and millennia, being
independently developed by multiple groups, and cross-pollinated
by trade between these groups. The core concepts of geography
consistent between all approaches are a focus on space, place,
time, and scale.[7][8][9][10][11][12]

Today, geography is an extremely broad discipline with multiple


approaches and modalities. There have been multiple attempts to
organize the discipline, including the four traditions of geography,
and into branches.[13][3][14] Techniques employed can generally be
broken down into quantitative[15] and qualitative[16]approaches, with
many studies taking mixed-methods approaches.[17] Common
techniques include cartography, remote sensing, interviews,
and surveying.

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