macrogeographyn.
/ˌmakrəʊdʒɪˈɒɡrəfi/, /ˌmakrəʊˈdʒɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /ˈˌmækroʊdʒiˈɑɡrəfi/ Geography.
A macroscopic approach to human geography that aims to identify large-scale patterns in observed phenomena rather than concentrating on local data, esp. in the analysis of population distribution, and its relation to economic and social conditions.
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1958 Geogr. Rev. 48 168 Position characteristics express the spatial relationship of one place to another... A sufficiently abstract and subtle measure of position has for the most part eluded geographers, and this fact has precluded the development of a macrogeography capable of producing generalizations about space-occupying systems.
1989 J. Bird Changing Worlds of Geogr. vii. 165 The thesis of Stewart and Warntz..is that at a sufficient level of abstraction (macrogeography) the cross-referencing of systems with different substantive correlates is possible.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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