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Boston was chosen to compete for the eighth grade.
Eighth-grader Ben Martin of Harper’s Ferry, W.Va., won the competition among the best geography students in grades four through eight at Wakefield; he will now compete in the state contest.
National Geographic WORLD, the National Geographic Society’s magazine for children, is sponsoring the new Geography Bee in schools around the nation. The contest was developed in response to a growing concern about the lack of geographic knowledge among young people in the United States.
A nine-country Gallup Survey conducted for the Society last May found that people in the United States ages 18 to 24, the youngest group surveyed, knew less about geography than young people in any of the other countries.
93.7%