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"Human Geography is the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and earth's surface." Who among the following geographers has given this definition?

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"Human Geography is the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and earth's surface." Who among the following geographers has given this definition? 

Options

  • Ellen C. Semple 

  • Ratzel 

  • George B. Cressey 

  • Paul Vidal de la Blache

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Solution

Ratzel 

Explanation:

Friedrich Ratzel's book "Anthropogeography" published in 1882 was the first to make Human Geography a recognised academic field. In the words of Ratzel, "synthetic study of the relationship between human societies and the Earth's surface" is what human geography represents.

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