Geography is a collective term for the natural environment (mountains, rivers, climate, etc.) and social elements of the world or a region. It is also a comprehensive and fundamental subject that deals with the relationship between people living on Earth and the geographical environment in which they live.

Geography is the study of various natural and human phenomena on the surface of the earth and their interrelationships.

Geography is a subject that deals with the relationship between people living on Earth and the geographical environment in which they live. Generally speaking, the scope of geography includes the various environments in which human beings live, that is, the natural environment and the human environment. The natural environment includes the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, soil and other spheres, which gives rise to various branches of geography, such as climate, hydrology and water environment, natural resources on earth, landforms, distribution of organisms and ecological phenomena, distribution and types of soil, etc. Besides these phenomena, natural geography also focuses on the surface system phenomena due to the interaction of style, hydrology, plants and soil. In addition to these phenomena, physical geography is also concerned with the phenomena of surface systems due to the interaction of style, hydrology, plants, and soil, as well as various environmental and climatic phenomena due to human activities. Therefore, scholars call such a discipline physical geography. In addition to physical geography, human has social nature, so it also includes the relationship between various human social phenomena and geographical environment, such as the distribution of agriculture, distribution of industry, distribution of settlements and other phenomena, especially focusing on the relationship between human economic activities and the environment, but the content of this aspect is relatively broad, involving a lot of scope and not easy to distinguish from other, so let's call it human geography (including economic geography). One of the most prominent concepts of human geography is to realize the harmony and unity between human beings and the environment, that is, sustainable development.

World Geography

It is an important aspect of people's scientific understanding of the world. From the perspective of physical geography, human geography, or a combination of both, it uses the general methods of geography such as analysis and synthesis, induction and generalization, and regional comparison to show the general appearance of continents, oceans, and countries (regions) and their internal differences, and to clarify the characteristics of the world's major cities and various physical and human geographic things.

Physical Geography

Physical geography is the study of the composition, structure, function and dynamics of the natural geographical environment and its spatial differentiation pattern. The comprehensive sub-sciences include comprehensive physical geography, regional physical geography, paleogeography, etc. Departmental sub-sciences include geomorphology, climatology, hydrography, biogeography, glaciology, etc. Physical geography in a narrow sense refers only to comprehensive physical geography, and sectoral physical geography has gradually developed into an independent discipline. Physical geography in a narrow sense refers only to integrated physical geography.

Human Geography

Human geography is one of the sub-disciplines of geography. The development of human geography has gone through the process of knowledge accumulation, discipline formation and theoretical evolution, disciplinary differentiation, and theoretical and methodological innovation. According to the order of its development, it can be divided into three stages: ancient, modern and contemporary.

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