全球化与可持续发展对地理教育提出了新的挑战,要求地理教育培养的人才必须具备包括国际理解、全球意识和可持续发展意识在内的公民必备素养。因此,当今主流地理教育指导思想是以可持续发展教育为主线,以公民素养教育为目标。随着地理新课程改革的不断深入,地理学科得到了长足的发展,学生地理素养也在不断提高,地理类竞赛正如火如荼地开展着。鉴于地理类竞赛在促进学生全面发展、使社会对地理学科的认同感不断增加等方面的作用,通过梳理和分析现有地理类竞赛的产生背景、类型特点、开展 Globalization and sustainable development have posed new challenges to geography education and require that talents trained in geography education must possess the requisite qualifications of citizens, including international understanding, global awareness and awareness of sustainable development. Therefore, the guiding ideology of today’s mainstream geography education is to take education for sustainable development as the main line and to target citizen literacy education. With the continuous deepening of the reform of the geography new curriculum, the discipline of geography has made considerable progress. The geography literacy of students is also constantly improving. Geographical competitions are being carried out in full swing. In view of the role of geography competitions in promoting students’ all-round development and increasing social identities in geography subjects, this paper analyzes and analyzes the background and types of existing geography competitions