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Harm J. de Blij (see IJ (digraph); closest pronunciation: "duh blay") (October 9, – March 25, )^[1][2][3] was a Dutch-American geographer.

He was a geography editor on ABC'sGood Morning America and an editor of National Geographic magazine and the author of several books, including Why Geography Matters.^[4]

Education and career

De Blij was born in Schiedam, the Netherlands, and received his early schooling in Europe.

He received his from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa in , and his M.A. in and Ph.D. in in the United States from Northwestern University. He published more than 30 books and over articles and has received five honorary degrees.

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Several of his books have been translated into foreign languages. He was the editor of Oxford's Atlas of North America. A native of the Netherlands, he was a professor of geography and viticulture at Michigan State University and the University of Miami and a