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Bookmark or Share- Geography | Definition, Types, History, & Facts | BritannicaGeography, the study of the diverse environments, places, and spaces of Earth’s surface and their interactions. The modern academic discipline is rooted in ancient practice, concerned with the characteristics of places, in particular their natural environments and peoples, as well as the relations between the two.
- Geography and its subfields | Britannicageography, Science of the Earth’s surface, which describes and analyzes the spatial variations in physical, biological, and human phenomena that occur on the surface of the globe and treats their interrelationships and their significant regional patterns.
- Ptolemy | Accomplishments, Biography, & Facts | BritannicaPtolemy was an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer who lived during the 2nd century CE. He is known for his geocentric (Earth-centred) model of the universe.
- Geography - Exploration, Mapping, Cartography | BritannicaGeography - Exploration, Mapping, Cartography: Geography’s 19th-century research directions were set by a few influential individuals, although not all of them were even formally associated with the discipline.
- Walter Christaller | German economic geographer | BritannicaThe German geographer Walter Christaller introduced central-place theory in his book entitled Central Places in Southern Germany (1933). The primary purpose of a settlement or market town, according to central-place theory, is the provision of goods and services for the surrounding market area.
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