Types of Geography

The study of the interrelationship between people and their physical environment.

• Human Environment Interaction

• Regional Geography

• Economic Geography

• Human Geography

Study of the ways unique combinations of environmental and human factors produce territories with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes.

• Regional Geography

• Zoography

• Regional Geography

• Military Geography

A discipline that studies the impact of economic activities on the landscape and investigates reasons behind the locations of economic activities.

• Cultural Geography

• Economic Geography

• Military Geography

• Population Geography

The sub-field of human geography that looks at how cultures vary over space.

• Cultural Geography

• Population Geography

• Economic Geography

• Zoography

Study how population dynamics and spatial relationships can affect the standard of living for individuals within a population.

• Zoography

• Developmental Geography

• Medicinal Geography

• Religious Geography

The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective. Among other things, looks at sources, diffusion routes, and distributions of diseases.

• Developmental Geography

• Historical Geography

• Religious Geography

• Medicinal Geography

Seeks an understanding of the origin of Earth and its development through time.

• Zoography

• Developmental Geography

• Historical Geography

• Religious Geography

The evaluation of all geographical factors which may in any way influence military operations.

• Military Geography

• Global Geography

• Economic Geography

• Political Geography

The subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of the evolving spatial organization of governance and formal political practice on the Earth's surface.

• Global Geography

• Political Geography

• Historical Geography

• Human Environment Interaction

A division of human geography concerned with spatial variations in distribution, composition, growth, and movements of population.

• Zoography

• Cultural Geography

• Population Geography

• Global Geography