Anton Melik Geographical Institute (Slovenia)National Geographic Society (U.S.)American Geographical Society (U.S.)National Geographic Bee (U.S.)Royal Canadian Geographical Society (Canada)Royal Geogr ...
Eratosthenes (276BC - 194BC) - calculated the size of the Earth.Strabo (64/63 BC – ca. AD 24) - wrote Geographica, one of the first books outlining the study of geography.Ptolemy (c.90–c.168) - comp ...
The oldest known world maps date back to ancient Babylon from the 9th century BC. The best known Babylonian world map, however, is the Imago Mundi of 600 BC. The map as reconstructed by Eckhard Unger ...
As spatial interrelationships are key to this synoptic science, maps are a key tool. Classical cartography has been joined by a more modern approach to geographical analysis, computer-based geographic ...
Main article: Integrated geographyIntegrated geography is the branch of geography that describes the spatial aspects of interactions between humans and the natural world. It requires an understanding ...
Traditionally, geographers have been viewed the same way as cartographers and people who study place names and numbers. Although many geographers are trained in toponymy and cartology, this is not the ...
Geography (from Greek γεωγραφ?α, geographia, lit. "earth description") is a field of science dedicated to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of the Earth ...
