Population Geography is a branch of _______.

Question

Question

This question was previously asked in

SSC MTS 2020 (Held On : 7 Oct 2021 Shift 2 ) Official Paper 8

Answer 1

The correct answer is Human Geography.

Key Points

Population Geography is a branch of 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.

Additional Information

Economic Geography studies the economic activities of the people including agriculture, industry, tourism, trade, transport, infrastructure, services, etc.
Historical Geography studies the historical processes through which the space gets organized. Every region has undergone some historical experiences before attaining its present-day status. The geographical features also experience temporal changes and these form the concerns of historical geography.
Political Geography looks at the space from the angle of political events and studies boundaries, space relations between neighboring units, delimitation of constituencies, election scenario and develops a theoretical framework to understand the political behavior of the population.