human geography

noun

1. the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.

Word History and Origins

Origin of human geography¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Several attempts have been made to reconstruct the aboriginal human geography but none has been entirely successful.

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Research in human geography has as its object the study of man in his relations to the earth.

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One of the most subtle is that which in human geography is called acclimatization, "accommodation to new climatic conditions."

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It bears somewhat the same relation to the facts of human geography that a block diagram does to physiography.

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Here are the greatest contrasts in the physical and human geography of the Andean Cordillera.

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