Chorography Definition & Meaning

Origin of Chorography

Latin chōrographia from Greek khōrographiā khōros place ghē- in Indo-European roots -graphiā -graphy

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Ancient Greek χῶρος (khōros, “place”) +‎ -graphy.

From Wiktionary

These facts are the key to the state's chorography.
Ptolemy used the word geography to signify the description of the whole oekumene on mathematical principles, while chorography signified the fuller description of a particular region, and topography the very detailed description of a smaller locality.
This slender distinction was made much of by most subsequent writers until Nathanael Carpenter in 1625 pointed out that the difference between geography and chorography was simply one of degree, not of kind.
Doubtless, however, he returned to Rome after a long sojourn in Alexandria, a fact which explains the defectiveness of his information about the countries to the east of his native land, and renders it possible for him to have made use of the " chorography " of Agrippa, a map of the Roman Empire and adjacent countries set up by order of Augustus in the Porticus Vipsaniae.
The Geography is a meagre sketch, based mainly on the Chorography of Pappus of Alexandria (in the end of the 4th century), and indirectly on the work of Ptolemy.

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