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Question
"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
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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