What is Geography? Geography is about a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the entire world. Geography can be narrower than the entire world, you can specialize by place, location or region, some geographers prefer to understand not whole region but a neighborhood in specific, becoming easier to use he techniques and methods of geography in order to study places at a variety of scales. You get to pick what you are studying and at what scale. Something really interesting about geography is that most people have a specialization in a particular place. You might be interested in study a city in Massachusetts or a smaller place.