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Terrain vs Geography - What's the difference?

terrain | geography |

As nouns the difference between terrain and geography

is that terrain is a single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks while geography is the study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth.

terrain

English

(wikipedia terrain)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geology) A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
  • An area of land or the particular features of it.

    • Synonyms

    * ground

    Related terms

    * terra * terrace * terracotta * terrane * terrene * terrestrial * terrier * territorial * territory

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    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)