'anthropogeographical' originates from Greek elements: 'anthropos' meaning 'human' and 'geographia' meaning 'description of the earth', with the English adjectival suffix '-ical'.

'anthropogeographical' developed from the compound noun 'anthropogeography' (from Greek 'anthropos' + 'geographia'), which entered scholarly English to denote 'human geography' concepts; the adjective form was formed by adding the suffix '-ical' in Modern English.

Initially the roots described 'a description of humans in relation to the earth'; over time the compound and its adjective came to mean broadly 'relating to human (or human-cultural) geography and its study'.