What is Geography?

When we heard the word “geography” there would be a lot of physical phenomenon comes to our mind. Things like landscape, sea, natural disaster, stone, weather, climates, and the earth itself are closely related to the word “geography”.

However, we also familiar to any other branches that specifically study about certain topics. Oceanography for example, is a study that reviews everything about the ocean including the ocean’s ecosystem dynamics, waves, plate tectonics, the geology of the sea floor, the physical properties in the ocean, etc. Another example can be biogeography. Biogeography studies about the distribution of animals and plans on the earth and the factors that impact the distribution.  On the other hand, anthropogeography studies about the human’s population and how it relates with the nature.

From the examples above, we can see that actually the word “geography” can be extremely comprehensive. It is not only about some specific topics, but it also explains about the relations between each topics.  The relations can be between humans and nature, landscapes and the populations around, natural disaster and the effect, etc.  Since it is the relations that matters in the study, geography itself, needs some ‘supporting studies’ such as biology, chemistry, and mathematics.