This study aims to highlight the importance of geography and its vital role in achieving sustainable development during clarifying the concept of sustainable development and determine the requirements to achieve it in the one hand and determine the role and the importance of geography in achieving sustainable development on the other. To achieve the objective of the study this paper contains three themes:

1 - Clarify the concept of development and sustainable development, which became the target pursued by the public to address the economic problems, (poverty, unemployment and inequality), as well as to address the environmental problems, (the problems of pollution and depletion of natural resources and negative change of Natural Landscape. This axis also includes study to define the requirements to achieve both development and sustainable development.

2 - Clarify the concept of geography and field of its study, as well as to clarify its role and its importance in helping to ensure the success of plans to achieve, the demands of the public, Development and Sustainable Development, and that during subjects of geography, (natural and human), which constitutes the material basis for development and development sustainable on the one hand and through a holistic view, which is characterized by geography, in his study of these subjects on the other.

3 - clarify the geographical concept of sustainable development and that by highlighting the role of geography in the detection of various aspects of knowing place in three dimensions at the same time and these dimensions are:
* - The relationship between the phenomena.
* - Historical evolution of the phenomena.
* - Regulation or the spatial distribution of the phenomena.
The geographical concept of sustainable development is characterized by comprehensive knowledge where the geographer teaches geographic place elements and their relationships with each other together, as taught physical basis for sustainable development and social characteristics. The geographer who studies Sustainable Development monitors areas for imbalances and explains the reasons for spatial disparities in the development process, to put the optimal image-based overview of the distribution of development projects and optimize the distribution of results to achieve the goals of sustainable development and of the maintenance of the environment and not compromising on the rights of future generations coming and the eradication of poverty, unemployment and spatial inequality.