What do geographers do?

A geographer studies locations and spaces to learn more about the world. While many people associate geography with maps, thanks to school lessons titled “geography” in which students study maps, geography is actually a very broad field of study, and while it can involve the production of maps, it also involves many more topics. People often broadly divide geographers into physical geographers and human geographers, and there are a number of subspecialties within these broad fields of study in geography.