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American Asia Australia bank bay beach bed border(n) border(v) British capital chart Chinese country county course development district down east(n) east(a) east(a) Europe face head -i island Italian Japanese key lake Latin America long. mountain navigation NE nor'- north(n) north(a) north(a) northern point pop. R range reference region regional resource river SE section source south(n) south(a) south(a) top town track up W water west(n) west(a) West western

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Date: 1400-1500
Language: Latin
Origin: geographia, from Greek, 'describing the Earth', from ge ( GEO-) + graphein 'to write'

geography

 noun
     
ge‧og‧ra‧phy [uncountable]
1 the study of the countries, oceans, rivers, mountains, cities etc of the world:
a geography lesson
 ➔ physical geography, political geography
2 the geography of a building, city etc is the way all its parts are arranged
geography of
The geography of the flats made it hard to get to know our neighbours.


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