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Re:The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection by hvdfhbj on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:02PM (#25107505)
When I went through high school (in Australia) the memorisation parts of geography had long since gone out of fashion, and what had replaced them was a series of "case studies" where you learned about the lifestyles of some obscure group of people elsewhere on the planet for a few months before forgetting about them entirely.

At least memorising the capital cities of every country on Earth gives you some kind of big picture knowledge that you can build on in later life.

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Re:The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection by jennyyang on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:28PM (#25107643)
I'm almost 50, and we did a geography project in grade 5 on Brazil. I still remember a lot about that project, despite a lot of that information being completely out of date now (My instinct is to still say cruziero as the currency of Brazil even though it's wrong). I've never been to the country and probably never will just out of lack of interest, but it's funny how some things stick with you.
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