The academic discipline that studies the Earth's surface, environments, and human-environment interactions.
彼は大学で地理学を専攻している。
He is majoring in geography at university.
地理学の授業で気候変動について学んだ。
We learned about climate change in geography class.
human geography
zoogeography
commercial geography
political geography
cultural geography
Compound of 地理 (chiri, 'geography') + 学 (gaku, 'study, -ology'). The term is a straightforward Sino-Japanese academic compound.