That goes without saying. But that is not what Geography is, either. That is what is taught to middle school students under the name of 'Geography'.

Academic geography is an interdisciplinary social/environmental science that attempts to make general statements and conclusions about how natural and environmental factors interact with human communities, industry and agriculture. For example, a typical geographical question might be something like "What type of agricultural activity and social organization would be expected to occur in a landscape dominated by glacial depositional features like moraines and eskers?"

My Master's thesis in cultural geography was about the distribution of residential swimming pools in Tampa, FL and how it related to local soil types, drainage, water tables, property values and zoning regulations. Hopefully, a good analysis of these interactions might yield information on how Tampa's swimming pool distribution resembled (or differed) from other communities in other parts of the country.

How nature affects human settlement patterns and activities is what Geography is all about. For example, it is highly recommended that military men study Geography because the climate, soils, landforms, and water bodies have such a critical effect on the movement and concealment of troops. Political boundaries, transport and communications networks and other human features also reflect the natural features of the landscape and how we plan our activities around them. City planners and land managers are also expected to be conversant with Geographical concepts, both natural and human. That's what got me my job in the County Planning Department, not my degree in astronomy.

In addition, Geography is also now taking over the arts of acquiring, cataloging, displaying and interpreting spatial data, such as aerial photography, satellite imagery, remote sensing, cartography, Geographic Information Systems, GPS, etc. This was just starting when I was beginning work in air topo mapping, so I figured it would look good on my resume.

I'm no more likely to know the capital of Wyoming or which states border New Jersey than anyone else.