Multiple choice

Who is the father of geography?

  1. Aristotle

  2. Euclid

  3. Hawking

  4. Eratosthenes
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Explanation

Eratosthenes, a Greek scholar, is called the 'father of geography' for coining the term 'geography' and calculating Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy. Euclid was a mathematician, Aristotle a philosopher, and Hawking a modern physicist.

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