Extended data:
Geography is a subject that studies various natural and human phenomena and their relationships in the geographical environment of the earth's surface. The word "geography" first appeared in China's Book of Changes. Ancient geography mainly explores measurement methods related to the shape and size of the earth, or describes known regions and countries. Geography is a subject that studies various natural and human phenomena and their relationships in the geographical environment of the earth's surface.
Explanation:
For the name of the subject, see "Geography". It is the same as the definition of "geography": it is the general name of a complex subject system that studies the interaction between natural elements and human elements on the earth's surface and the characteristics, structure, pattern, process, regional differentiation and related courses offered in schools at all levels. Geography is divided into physical geography and human geography.
Many scholars separate economic geography from human geography, so geography can be divided into three categories: physical geography, human geography and economic geography.
In the west, in the 2nd century BC, Eratosthenes, an ancient Greek scholar, first synthesized the word Geo+Graphica, meaning "geography" or "description of the earth", and wrote the first Geographic A (GEO+GRAPHICA) named after "geography" in the west.
The concept of "geography" in ancient China is completely different from the concept of "geography" today. The concept of "geography" in ancient China contains a lot of geomantic contents, and books about geomantic contents often use the name "geography".
Looking at the concept of "geography" from a modern point of view, the books that described the related contents earlier in ancient times include Shangshu-Gong Yu, Shan Hai Jing and so on. , and mainly discusses the measurement methods and related data about the shape and size of the earth, or describes the known regions and countries. The word "geography" is not used in such books.