Definition of "chorography" []

• The technique of mapping a region or district. (noun)
• A description or map of a region. (noun)

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• "I have not only seen several countries, beheld the nature of their climes, the chorography of their provinces, topography of their cities, but understood their several laws, customs, and policies; yet cannot all this persuade the dulness of my spirit unto such an opinion of myself as I behold in nimbler and conceited heads, that never looked a degree beyond their nests."
• "Tycho Brahe, that great astronomer, in the chorography of his Isle of Huena, and Castle of"
• "To set down such things in my note-books, which carried some mention of certain places in the land of Israel, or afforded some light into the chorography of that land."