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Geography (from
Greek γεωγραφία,
geographia, literally "earth description"
[1]) is a field of
science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of
Earth.
[2] The first person to use the word "γεωγραφία" was
Eratosthenes (276–194 BC).
[3] Four historical traditions in geographical research are
spatial analysis of the natural and the human phenomena (geography as the study of distribution),
area studies (places and regions), study of the human-land relationship, and research in the
Earth sciences.
[4]
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. Geography has been called "the world discipline" and "the
bridge between the human and the
physical science". Geography is divided into two main branches:
human geography and
physical geography.
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