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The first person to use the word geography was Eratosthenes. Eratosthenes was a Greek scholar and chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria. He invented geography including most of the terminology still in use.

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The English word geography wasn't coined until the 1540s, deriving from the original Greek word geographia. The coining of that word is credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who also invented a system of latitude and longitude.

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Eratosthenes was the first person to use it!

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the 1st person to be sent on earth was Prophet Adam (A.S.)

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