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Which of the following is called the father of human geography?

  • 1
    Karl Ritter
  • 2
    Jean Brunche
  • 3
    Humboldt
  • 4
    Hipparkus
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Answer : 1. "Karl Ritter"
Explanation :

Human Geography 

It is the study of the many cultural aspects found throughout the world and how they relate to the spaces and places where they originate and the spaces and places they then travel to, as people continually move across various areas. 

Human geography is also called cultural geography. 

Fredrich Ratzel was a German Geographer and ethnographer. He is the father of Human Geography.

Vidal de la Blanche was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics. 

He conceived the idea of genre de vie, which is the belief that the lifestyle of a particular region reflects the economic, social ideological and psychological identities imprinted on the landscape.

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