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Yes I too am very confused

Jokes aside I think it's good to understand just a little bit of geography

You don't have to list every major mountain on earth but just know a world map just enough so that you avoid saying "Sahara is a rainforest" or "Hawaii is a continent"

Oh yeah I totally agree

Might be important in lower school years, but we Italians stop studying it after year 2 of high school, as we start studying philosophy instead

to be fair the only geography i really learned beside my own country's was from board games

On a basic level, I think everyone should have a small knowledge of how earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, floods, and other hazards happen

That's interesting, philosophy is an optional subject in the uk

I didn't learn it but my brother did

Yeah, after you're 14 years old geography is optional

But up until then you learn a basic amount of how natural systems work which I think is good

we learn that stuff in science and not geography

maybe thats what they meant?

Oh really? ?

yeah

Ah I guess, they didn't communicate it very well though

?

we kinda just learned the map

I find it funny that we saw bigger maps the older our classes got (had an Italy map in early elementary and had a whole world map by the first years of high school)

Also at one point we had a map of the Roman empire for some reason

IN LATIN

? I don't really remember being taught to memorise names or anything, but we did learn a lot about other countries

Pfffftt

It's your history I guess

What about tourism and population etc

Geography was one of my favorite subjects in school

That's part of geography

It was definitely one of my favourites for sure

I did an PowerPoint presentation on Japan for World Geography back in High School

In early high school we focused on infrastructure somehow

In what way?

Social, commercial aspect of the countries, although we only got to Italy and not worldwide

Oh yeah!