GORAN MIMICA

Geography is a representation in picture of the whole known world together with the phenomena which are contained therein. It differs from Chorography in that Chorography, selecting certain places from the whole, treats more fully the particulars of each by themselves [...] Chorography is most concerned with what kind of places those are which it describes, not how large they are in extent. Its concern is to paint a true likeness, and not merely to give exact position and size. Geography looks at the position rather than the quality noting the relation of distances everywhere [...]Chorography needs an artist, and no one presents it rightly unless he is an artist. Geography does not call for the same requirements, as any one, by means of lines and plain notations can fix positions and draw general outlines.
Now, that we have explained the differences between Geography and Chorography in such thorough and clear words, it is time to show these differences in ways understandable to everyone.

(Claudius Ptolemy, The Geography)