economic geography

American  

noun

1. a branch of geography that deals with the relation of physical and economic conditions to the production and utilization of raw materials and their manufacture into finished products.

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economic geography British  

noun

1. the study of the geographical distribution of economic resources and their use

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Etymology

Origin of economic geography

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

“The New Geography of Innovation” is an enjoyable book as well as a thoughtful discussion of how economic geography is changing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

The great prize of all of this was to change Britain's economic geography, to create a counterweight to south east England, and in effect to create a single labour market across three major northern cities.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023

Richard Walker, a professor emeritus of economic geography at the University of California, Berkeley and a historian of Silicon Valley, sees a shift in the locus of power.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022

“It’s a fundamentally different economic geography than we saw 30 years ago, and our politics seem to be following pretty closely,” said John Lettieri, president of the Economic Innovation Group.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2020

If we are to understand the conditions on which his progress depends, we must pay some attention to economic geography.

From The Negro Farmer by Kelsey, Carl