Thesaurus:geography

Thesaurus

geography

English

Noun

Sense: study of physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth

Synonyms

• geography

Hypernyms

• science    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• earth science    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

Broader

• human geography
• physical geography

Physical geography

• geomorphology
• biogeography
• climatology
• meteorology    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pedology
• palaeogeography

Various

Key notions

• Earth    [⇒ thesaurus]
• landform    [⇒ thesaurus]
• map
• atlas
• gazetteer
• latitude
• longitude
• altitude
• settlement    [⇒ thesaurus]

Landforms

• continent
• subcontinent
• island    [⇒ thesaurus]
• mountain    [⇒ thesaurus]
• valley    [⇒ thesaurus]
• body of water    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ocean
• river    [⇒ thesaurus]
• lake    [⇒ thesaurus]

Continents

• Africa    [⇒ thesaurus]
• Antarctica
• Australia
• North America    [⇒ thesaurus]
• South America    [⇒ thesaurus]
• Eurasia
• Europe    [⇒ thesaurus]
• Asia    [⇒ thesaurus]

Biogeographic realm

• Nearctic
• Palearctic
• Afrotropic
• Indomalaya
• Australasia
• Neotropic
• Oceania    [⇒ thesaurus]
• Antarctic

Settlements

• city    [⇒ thesaurus]
• town
• village

Other structures

• bridge
• road    [⇒ thesaurus]
• tunnel

Other

• country    [⇒ thesaurus]
• administrative division    [⇒ thesaurus]

People

• geographer
• cartographer

Further reading

• “geography” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• "geography" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
• Wikidata:geography
• geography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Outline of geography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia