By the 18th century, geography had become recognized as a discrete discipline and became part of a typical university curriculum in Europe (especially Paris and Berlin), although not in the United Kingdom where geography was generally taught as a sub-discipline of other subjects.
Tek je u 18. stoljeću geografija postala prepoznata kao zasebna disciplina, pa je postala dio tipičnog sveučilišnog nastavnog plana u Europi (posebice u Parizu i Berlinu), dok se u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu geografija smatrala subdisciplinom drugih predmeta.