抄録
It has been always fundamentals in geographical education, to ensure the students' memory about location of places. Before the Second World War, there has been emphasized to learn place names and their location in geographical education in junior or senior high schools, but that method of education has been deserted after the war.
Although the education for map-reading is very important to ensure the memory of place location, students have often mistaken the location on map. To overcome this kind of mistake, the author tries to use a blank map, only representing topographical features and a case study was made in the education of regional geography of the Eastern Europe.
There are two kinds of teaching to learn the geography of the Eastern Europe, as for geographical distributions of natural environments, products, industries, races, urban settlements, etc.
(1) To learn geographical distributions at every nation.
(2) To learn geographical distributions at two sub-regions, divided topographically, —the Baltic or northern slope, and the Mediterranean or southern slope.
According to the author's experiments, the latter showed the better result.
It seems to be difficult to identify the location of places in inland region. In the cases of learning for inland region, a blank map, only representing topographical features, are also useful to remember the location.
