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Geography is generally the scientific study of the environment and its habitants by bridging the social sciences (Human Geography) and the earth sciences (Physical Geography). Human geography (sometimes called Cultural Geography) is concerned with the study of cultures, history, political structures, economic activities, nations, settlements, lines of communication, transportation, buildings, and other such aspects that involves all phases of human social life in relation to the physical earth. Human geography provides an understanding of how all these aspects affect the location and spatial organization of people and their activities on Earth. Physical geography is the branch of geography that studies the natural features of the Earth's surface as well as their formation. Physical geography is concerned with the study of the natural environment; climate and weather patterns, earth-sun interaction, land forms, soils, rocks, vegetations, water, plant and animal life.

The ancient Greeks created the word "geography" from the Greek words "geo" or "ge" both meaning "Earth" and "grapho" meaning "to write" and graphein meaning "to describe" or "to write.”

Hence, Geography describes and analyses the variable character, from place to place on earth whereby studying many aspects of the physical and cultural environment that are significant to understanding the character of areas or the spatial organization of the world. Thus, it is defined as the study of spatial variation, of how and why things differ from place to place on the surface of the earth, as well as, the study of how observable spatial patterns evolved through time.

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