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Abstract: Geography has a long tradition of being an important subject in the school curriculum. Geography has a long tradition of representing its findings in terms of maps, graphs, charts, images and diagrams. Hence, the visual sense is given utmost priority in Geography and this trend has limited the scope for the visually impaired learners in Geography. The present study seeks to explore the learning attitude of the visually impaired learners towards Geography with respect to their gender, residence and level of education by using an attitude scale encompassing three dimensions of classroom transaction, preferability and difficulty in learning Geography. The sample size for visually impaired learners is 374 (class VI to X) with their age varying from 11-18 years. Samples were collected from nine districts of West Bengal. The findings noted significant differences in the learning attitude of the students according to their level of education.