Who is the father of Geography?

Aristotle

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Eratosthenes

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Herodotus

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Ptolemy

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The correct option is B Eratosthenes
The ancient Greek scholar Eratosthenes is commonly called the "father of geography" for he was the first to use the word geography and he had a small-scale notion of the planet that led him to be able to determine the circumference of the earth.

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