8. What is a database? Provide an example as it relates to geography.

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A database is a collection of digital information stored in computers as files, usually data tables. Database management systems are systems used to store, update, and analyze non-geographic information. Geographic data are cases in which the data relates with places. Geographic data would consist of attributes of a certain location, for example population would be geographic data.

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