Geography, class 7

Both boards run a class-7 geography and both build it around the economy, but they cover different ground and neither is contemporaneous with the other. Punjab's six SNC chapters — Plains and Rivers, Water Sources and Management, Settlements and Land Use, Agriculture, Climate Change, Minerals and Power — are about sixty per cent human and economic geography and unusually well supplied with real statistics: agriculture at 22.7 per cent of GDP and 37.4 per cent of the labour force (p.51), 83 per cent of cultivable area canal-dependent (p.50), the 2017 census at 63 per cent rural (p.43), plus Reko Diq, Thar, Sui and Khewra. KP's Urdu-medium volume is the longest book in the corpus at 161 pages and splits cleanly: six chapters of systematic physical geography (denudation, atmosphere, temperature, air pressure and winds, humidity and precipitation) then five of Pakistan's economic geography. Because KP put map skills and population in the class-6 book, its geography sequence is genuinely cumulative across grades where Punjab's simply omits demography at both. Vintage is confounded — Punjab SNC-2022 against a KP series NOC dated 5 April 2011, printed for 2020-21 — and here the older book is not obviously the more dated one: KP carries the ozone hole and CFCs, the greenhouse effect, deforestation and waterlogging and salinity, while Punjab's climate chapter is current on impacts (2022 floods, 2021 heat wave) but names only Copenhagen 2009 as international action, with no Paris Agreement and no COP series. The clearest genuine difference is provincial hooking: KP's economic chapters name Gadoon-Amazai, Karak gas, Orakzai coal, Swat emeralds, Warsak dam and Bannu woollens, while Punjab's book has essentially no province-specific in-content examples. Both score A2 5 and A7 5, but KP's are Urdu-OCR absence claims and must be read as not established rather than demonstrated. The board printing a fifteen-year-old geography syllabus is the one that tells children where their own province's coal and emeralds come from.