diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ce386e41ac..8c466078a7 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ Suggests:
     quantreg,
     ragg,
     RColorBrewer,
-    rgeos,
     rmarkdown,
     rpart,
     sf (>= 0.7-3),