GEOG 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Integrated Geography, Human Geography, Population Geography
6 Jan 2020
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Geography is defined as the scientific study of earth"s lands, its features, its inhabitants and the phenomena surrounding the earth. It is an all-round discipline that explains an understanding of the earth and its human, physical and environmental complexities. Geography can be divided into three main branches or types. These are human geography, physical geography and environmental geography. This is an important branch of geography that mainly involves the study of human race. This involves the study of the race, their origins, their interactions and the perceptions they have regarding various ideologies that affect them. It also includes the study of how these groups of people organize themselves in the places that they inhabit. Population geography: this is the study of geography that is mainly concerned with the demographic distribution of the people. It includes the study of population distribution, migration, origin and growth in a particular region.
