ABSTRACT
Population geography has no one theory, methodology or, for that matter, definition. It is a widely recognised sub-field of geography as a teaching subject and work on population matters is prominent in the research discipline that is geography. But the distinctions between geographies of population, where population is merely one aspect of a complete human geography; spatial perspectives in population studies or demography, and population geography as a separate entity in its own right are exceptionally blurred. Some of these difficulties relate to the inherent problems faced in defining geography, but others stem from the nature of population studies as a diffuse multi-disciplinary specialism.
