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geography

/dʒɪˈɒɡɹəfi/noun

The subject that studies the earth's surface, its features, and how people interact with them.

Example sentence

  • In geography class we learned about rivers and mountain ranges.

In everyday use it also means the physical layout of anything: the geography of the office, the geography of the brain. Physical and human geography are the field's two halves.

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