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Which discipline does historical geography belong to?
Historical geography is an interdisciplinary subject, which belongs to geography in essence, but it can be said to be a branch of history because it studies geography from a historical perspective.

Historical geography is a subject that studies the geographical environment and its evolution law in historical periods. It is a young branch of geography, which is closely related to the traditional research of evolutionary geography. Evolutionary geography mainly studies the changes of administrative regions and territories in past dynasties. It has a long history in China and is very rich in content, and there are similar studies in the west. However, historical geography, as an integral part of modern geography, was first developed in the West.