Where did the word geography first appear?

The word "geography" was first found in the Chinese Book of Changes. Ancient geography mainly explored measurement methods related to the shape and size of the earth, or described known regions and countries.

Geography is a subject about the relationship between people living on the earth and the geographical environment in which they live. Its scope includes various environments of human life, that is, the natural environment and the humanistic environment.

The natural environment includes the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, pedosphere and other spheres, which give rise to various branches of geography, such as climate phenomena, hydrological phenomena, water environment, and the earth's Natural resources, landforms, biological distribution and ecological phenomena, soil distribution and types, and many other phenomena.

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The importance of geography:

Geography has a great contribution to the national economy: first of all, we can explore various aspects based on the results of geoscience research resources, thereby providing human beings with resources for living, industrial and agricultural production;

And, due to the development of geoscience research, predictions of ocean changes, weather changes and environmental quality can be made to some extent. In addition, earthquake prediction is also being studied to reduce the natural disasters faced by humans. This is the second application; the third application is geographic information systems.

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