Match List-I with List-II
| List-I (Fields of Human Geography) | List-II (Sister Discipline) | ||
| (A) | Social Geography | (I) | Psephology |
| (B) | Urban Geography | (II) | Demography |
| (C) | Political Geography | (III) | Epidemology |
| (D) | Population Geography | (IV) | Urban studies and planning |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A) - (III), (B) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)
(A) Social Geography — this matches (III) Epidemology. Medical geography, a sub-field of social geography, has its interface with epidemiology.
(B) Urban Geography — this matches (IV) Urban studies and planning.
(C) Political Geography — this matches (I) Psephology. Electoral geography, a sub-field of political geography, has its interface with psephology.
(D) Population Geography — this matches (II) Demography.
NCERT (2025-26): “Fields and Sub-fields of Human Geography … Human geography, as you have seen, attempts to explain the relationship between all elements of human life and the space they occur over. Thus, human geography assumes a highly inter-disciplinary nature. It develops close interface with other sister disciplines in social sciences in order to understand and explain human elements on the surface of the earth. With the expansion of knowledge, new sub-fields emerge and it has also happened to human geography. Let us examine these fields and sub-fields of Human Geography (Table 1.2).”
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