Noun

Singular geography

Plural countable and uncountable; plural geographies

geography (countable and uncountable; plural geographies)

1. The study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth.
2. The physical structure of a particular region; terrain.
   • 1973, Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization

     The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.

Derived terms

• geographer
• geographic
• geographical

Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία - geographia, lit. "earth describe-write") is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.). Four historical traditions in geographical research are the spatial analysis of natural and human phenomena (geography as a study of distribution), area studies (places and regions), study of man-land relationship, and research in earth sciences. Nonetheless, modern geography is an all-encompassing discipline that foremost seeks to understand the Earth and all of its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be. As "the bridge between the human and physical sciences," geography is divided into two main branches—human geography and physical geography.

This page is for quotes on the subject of Geography, the study of the earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena.

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• Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
  • Terry Pratchett in The Last Continent

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• History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
  • James A. Garfield

• As a young man, my fondest dream was to become a geographer. However... I thought deeply about the matter and concluded that it was far too difficult a subject. With some reluctance, I then turned to physics as a substitute.
  • Duane F. Marble, Professor of Geography, posted this on his office door at SUNY at Buffalo, misattributing it to Albert Einstein; it has since been quoted as if it were a genuine quote of Einstein.

• Even heavy automobile traffic out of New York City on a summer weekend minutely unbalances the earth as it rotates.
  • Paul Allman Siple

• I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.
  • Mitch Hedberg

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