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Geography vs Cartography - What's the difference?

geography | cartography |

As nouns the difference between geography and cartography

is that geography is the study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth while cartography is the creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography.

geography

English

Noun

(wikipedia geography) (wikiversity)
  • The study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth.
  • The physical structure of a particular region; terrain.
  • * 1973 , Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization
    • The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.

    Derived terms

    * biogeography * geographer * geographic * geographical * phytogeography * zoogeography

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

    cartography

    English

    (wikipedia cartography)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography.
  • (countable, figuratively) An illustrative discussion of a topic.

    • Synonyms

    * cartology

    Derived terms

    * cartographer * cartographic, cartographical English words suffixed with -graphy