What is geography?

Geography is the collective name for the natural environment and social elements of the world or a certain region.

Geography is a subject about the relationship between people living on the earth and the geographical environment in which they live. Generally speaking, the scope of geography includes the various environments in which human beings live, that is, the natural environment and the human environment. The natural environment includes the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, pedosphere and other circles, which give rise to various branches of geography, such as climate phenomena, hydrological phenomena and water environment, natural resources on the earth, landforms, biological Distribution and ecological phenomena, soil distribution and types, and many other phenomena. In addition to these, physical geographical phenomena also focus on surface system phenomena due to the interaction of patterns, hydrology, plants, and soil, as well as various environmental phenomena caused by human activities. , climate phenomena. Therefore, scholars call this subject physical geography. In addition to physical geography, human beings are social, so it also includes the relationship between various human social phenomena and the geographical environment, such as the distribution of agriculture, industry, settlements, etc., with special emphasis on the relationship between human economic activities and the environment, but The content of this aspect is relatively broad, covering many areas and it is difficult to distinguish it from other areas. Let’s call it human geography (including economic geography).