economic geography

noun

1. a branch of geography that deals with the relation of physical and economic conditions to the production and utilization of raw materials and their manufacture into finished products.

economic geography

noun

1. the study of the geographical distribution of economic resources and their use

Word History and Origins

Origin of economic geography¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

The flip side of this growing income inequality is a deepening economic geography of wealth and class.

From The Daily Beast

This is a fundamental fact of economic geography, and inevitably leads to historical results.

From Project Gutenberg

If we are to understand the conditions on which his progress depends, we must pay some attention to economic geography.

From Project Gutenberg