Abstract
During the Republican period in Turkey, various arrangements were made regarding the world regional geography syllabi. In this context, with the curriculum of 2005, which forms the overall structure of the geography curriculum in today's secondary education, the understanding of world regional geography has greatly changed. This study is descriptive as well as qualitative data model and document analysis in terms of data gathering techniques. The main objective of the study is to explain the historical development process of countries' geography teaching in the secondary education in Turkey and to set forth the current state of the countries' geography teaching. The study revealed that the current teaching of countries' geography in secondary education has been renewed. In this context, it is revealed that the manner with which the topics related to countries' geography were delivered was aiming to analyse the geographic information, and to achieve progress in an innovative sense.
 
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Highlights
In the committee decisions of the 1st Turkish Geography Congress (1941) which is the most important meeting where geographic matters were discussed and resolved at a state level during the Republican era, it was decided, among other geography classes in the secondary schools, to allocate 2-hour class for Geography of States for 7th grades students
In the secondary education geography curriculum, which started to be implemented in the 1987-1988 academic year, two-hour world regional geography class per week was allocated for the 7th-grade students as well as for the 10th-grade students (Doğanay, 1989)
The Focal Point of the Study The focal point of this study is to find answers to the following questions: "In the past and present, how much space was allocated in the geography curricula and textbooks for the world regional geography, and in what manner they were addressed?" "How has the education of world regional geography changed over the years?"
Summary
In the committee decisions of the 1st Turkish Geography Congress (1941) which is the most important meeting where geographic matters were discussed and resolved at a state level during the Republican era, it was decided, among other geography classes in the secondary schools, to allocate 2-hour class for Geography of States for 7th grades students. According to this curriculum, in the first year of the high school, the students were to be taught general geography, in the second-year world regional geography, and in the third and last year the geography of Turkey.
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