Question

Answer the following question in about 30 words.

Define human geography.

Answer 1

• According to Ratzel, “Human geography is the synthetic study of the relationship between human societies and the earth’s surface.”
• According to Ellen C. Semple, “Human geography is the study of the changing relationships between the unresting man and unstable earth.”
• According to Paul Vidal de la Blache, “Conception resulting from a more synthetic knowledge of the physical laws governing our earth and of the relations between the living beings which inhabit it.”