geography
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[edit] Etymology
From Greek geographia via Latin and French, from geos (“‘earth’”) + graphia (“‘-graphy’”)
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- IPA: /dʒɪˈɒgrəfi/, SAMPA: /dZI"Qgr@fi/
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[edit] Noun
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geography (countable and uncountable; plural geographies)
- The study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth.
- The physical structure of a particular region; terrain.
- 1973, Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization
- The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.
- 1973, Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization
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study of physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth