Synonyms:
geography, geographics
Meaning: study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
Usage examples
The knowledge of that land's geography . . .
"We thought her very ignorant, for she had never learnt grammar at all, and very little geography."
If we put on one side all these figments of an imagination run mad, what gain has been derived for geography?
In science the Irish scholars were famous for their knowledge of Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, Music, Geography, and so forth.
History is one such group of facts; algebra another; geography another, and so on till we have run through the entire curriculum.
I had no compass with me and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world that the sun was of little benefit to me.
I also learnt history, and was instructed in poetry, versification, geography, chronology, and in all the outdoor exercises in which every prince should excel.
Old Hurricane bought her books and maps, slates and copy-books, set her lessons in grammar, geography and history, and made her write copies, do sums and read and recite lessons to him.
The attitude of the Church on geography was hostile to the truth, as witness the persecutions of those who dared to venture that the earth was round. Botany, mathematics, and geometry, as well as the natural sciences, slumbered.