Topography vs Geography - What's the difference?
topography | geography |
a precise description of a place
a detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object
the features themselves (the terrain)
the surveying of the features
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
As nouns the difference between topography and geography
is that topography is a precise description of a place while geography is the study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth.topography
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(wikipedia topography) (topographies)See also
* topology * toponym * toponymicgeography
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(wikipedia geography) (wikiversity)- 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.