What is the connection between the words geography and spatial?

Question

What is the connection between the words geography and spatial?

Answer 1

Geography-is the study of the earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth".

Spatial is a part of it- Four historical traditions in geographical research are the "spatial analysis" of natural and human phenomena (geography as a study of distribution), area studies (places and regions), study of man-land relationship, and research in earth sciences.

Nonetheless modern geography is an all-encompassing discipline that foremost seeks to understand the world and all of its human and natural complexities-- not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be...

Answer 2

Geography is the study of how things are spatialy distributed and connected. Things close together are more similar than those far apart.