the study of the geographical distribution of economic resources and their use
economic geography in American English
the branch of geography that deals with the relation of economic conditions to physical geography and natural resources
economic geography in American English
noun
a branch of geography that deals with the relation of physical and economic conditionsto the production and utilization of raw materials and their manufacture into finished products
Word origin
[1910–15]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blackout, functionalism, grass roots, isotope, zing
Examples of 'economic geography' in a sentence
economic geography
They can remake the economic geography of this country.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Britain's economic geography makes it well suited to high-speed rail.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He said that high-speed rail would 'change the social and economic geography of this country'.
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It suffers from 'very poor economic geography', has weak transport links and 'isn't somewhere outsiders consider a desirable place to live'.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The chief reason is not economic geography - the obsolescence of cities built to look to the sea or the coal fields.