diff --git a/src/ng/sanitizeUri.js b/src/ng/sanitizeUri.js
index edda8244e406..1115f6224ab1 100644
--- a/src/ng/sanitizeUri.js
+++ b/src/ng/sanitizeUri.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  */
 function $$SanitizeUriProvider() {
 
-  var aHrefSanitizationWhitelist = /^\s*(https?|s?ftp|mailto|tel|file):/,
+  var aHrefSanitizationWhitelist = /^\s*(https?|s?ftp|mailto|tel|file|geo):/,
     imgSrcSanitizationWhitelist = /^\s*((https?|ftp|file|blob):|data:image\/)/;
 
   /**
diff --git a/test/ngSanitize/sanitizeSpec.js b/test/ngSanitize/sanitizeSpec.js
index ac3c44b3d59c..554ef5677258 100644
--- a/test/ngSanitize/sanitizeSpec.js
+++ b/test/ngSanitize/sanitizeSpec.js
@@ -589,6 +589,7 @@ describe('HTML', function() {
       expect('MAILTO:me@example.com').toBeValidUrl();
       expect('tel:123-123-1234').toBeValidUrl();
       expect('TEL:123-123-1234').toBeValidUrl();
+      expect('geo:12.34,56.78').toBeValidUrl();
       expect('#anchor').toBeValidUrl();
       expect('/page1.md').toBeValidUrl();
     });