Current Department of Human Geography and Demogeography has been established in 1952, originally as Department of Economic Geography. It was created simultaneously with Department of Physical Geography at newly organised Faculty of Geological and Geographical Sciences. The origin of the Department was a result of growing demand for graduates and works specialised on economic-geographic issues as a scientific discipline.

Economic/human geography has at the Comenius University long lasting tradition. It has been part of education since 1921, when a Geographical Seminar was established at the Faculty of Letters, primarily for the education of geography teachers. Lectures provided mainly Czech geographers. Several of them had become leading experts in economic geography (e.g. Prof. Chotele, Prof. Král, Associate Professor Štúla). In 1940, the Geographical Seminar was joined to Faculty of Natural Sciences and was converted into Geographical Institute. Its director, Prof. Hromádka was complexly oriented geographer, who contributed substantially to the development of social economic geographical disciplines.

Within years, the Department changed its name - since 1986 it was Department of Socio-economic geography, and since 1992 it is Department of Human Geography and Demogeography. It is included within Comenius University Faculty of Natural Sciences.

Heads of the Department
1952-1958 - Prof. Anton Šíma
1958-1974 - Prof. Koloman Ivanička
1974-1981 - Prof. Michal Zaťko
1981-1990 - Prof. Jozef Mládek
1990 - Dr. Vladimir Slavík
1990-1997 - Prof. Pavol Korec
1997-2000 - Prof. Jozef Mládek
Since 2000 - Prof. Pavol Korec

The Department is located at the Faculty of Natural Sciences main complex since 1986, where it moved from its "historical site" in city centre Rajská street No. 12.

At present, Department belongs to the leading Slovak geographical research and education centres having almost 30 members (including technical staff and PhD students). Study specialisations include Geography and Cartography (B.Sc.), Geography in Administration (B.Sc), Human Geography and Demogeography (M.Sc.), Human Geography in Administration (M.Sc.) and Human Geography (PhD).