Why should study Geography?

It's a misconception that Geography is only about finding nations and its capitals as well on a map. Otherwise, it’s big and more than maps. Another way to think about it is that there are three important "W" questions: What is where? Why is it there? Why it matters? These are some reasons why we should study Geography:

Geography is the study of location and place. Everything has a location, and there are patterns to places. Location and place dictate how we as humans interact with each other and with the environment that surrounds us. Politics, history, religion, society, medicine, economics, science, art, language, ideas... all are influenced by geography is ways that are obvious and ways that are subtle. Geography is the attempt to understand the "big picture" of it all.

Geography supplies information you need to function in your world. Someday, you may want to go abroad for holidays to new places that you’ve never been or join a study abroad for students, geography will give knowledge about new cultural, people differences and also shows where the rest of the world is and how close or far it is from you,… that help you can have the trips to across anywhere and everywhere of the globe.

You can learn about the strengths and weaknesses of your own area, resources or products that derive from there. Ever you wonder about what you eat, what you wear, or even what you listen,…if you do, geography will help you answer where things come from or how they get here.

Personally, the shape and of nations in the world interested me a lot. It help me to recognize any country easily and fast on maps such as my country – Vietnam with S letter, England’s shape like a rabbit or Italy is a boot….One more thing make me want to study geography is can pass my exams. J

Joseph Piwowar is a Geography professor at the University of Regina and Canada Research Chair in Geomatics and Sustainability, he said "Your place of birth (for example) influenced the economy of where you grew up because you consumed goods and services. It also effected the environment of the place where you grew up because after those goods and services were consumed they ended up in the landfill . . . . If you really care about the place we live in, about climate change, for example and you want to do something about it, you want to learn more and understand how you can adapt to the impacts that are coming then you need to study Geography."