Geography is the study of the cultural and physical features of the earth's surface and the relations between them.  Geographers are tantalized by questions such as: "How are mountain landscapes created?", "Why does climate vary?", "How have the major religions spread throughout the world?", "Why does the pattern of agricultural activity differ from one region to another?", and "How does globalization affect the lives of peoples at home and abroad?".  These questions appear quite diverse, but it is through geography that we can seek and discover underlying order and meaning in this diversity.  To this end geographers not only analyze elements of the human and physical environments to develop an awareness of the character of peoples, regions and places but synthesize those from the larger processes and dynamics of human and environmental interactions at local, medium and large scales.  Whatever you want in life, you can probably find it somewhere in geography.

Dating back to ancient Greece, and as confirmed in Vermeer's 1669 The Geographer, Geography is one of humankinds' oldest disciplinary traditions. Today it is one of the most diverse fields of inquiry in the humanities and social and physical sciences.