Meaning: ‘Anthropo’ Means ‘Human’ so Ratzel coined the term “Human geography”. Hence, Friedrich Ratzel is known as the ‘Father of Human geography’.

Human geography means the study of man made features on the surface of the earth for for ex: culture, society, agriculture, industry, transport, religion etc.

Man is a product of environment so the study of interrelationship of man & his environment is known as human geography.

Field of human Geography: The physical and cultural environment. It shows on human creations and development they are influenced by natural features such relief, drainage, soils, climate, vegetation, Land forms etc on which cultural environment dependce. Economic activities such as houses, villages, cities, road-rail networks,industries etc these are created by human being through their activities.

Thus the physical environment has been greatly modified by human beings, at the same human life is also influenced by nature in addition to that culture and technology have aided man in his attempt of making use of environment.