人口地理学是研究人口分布状况及其规律性的学科。主要内容涉及人口迁移流动、城市化等方面，在实际研究中综合了人口学和地理学两大学科特点，是人文地理学的重要分支学科。

Population geography is a division of human geography. It is the study of the ways in which spatial variations in the distribution, composition, migration, and growth of populations are related to the nature of places. Population geography involves demography in a geographical perspective. It focuses on the characteristics of population distributions that change in a spatial context. Examples can be shown through population density maps. A few types of maps that show the spatial layout of population are choropleth, isoline, and dot maps. Population geography studies: