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map projection

representation of the surface of a sphere or ellipsoid onto a plane map
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map projection

Summary

map projection ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (683 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • map projection's subclass of is recorded as projection[2].
  • map projection's Commons category is recorded as Map projections[3].
  • map projection's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dn07[4].
  • map projection's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph973686[5].
  • map projection's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Map projections[6].
  • map projection's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10640363[7].
  • map projection's topic has template is recorded as Template:Map projections[8].
  • map projection's YSO ID is recorded as 8991[9].
  • map projection's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1231g4ks[10].
  • map projection's MathWorld ID is recorded as MapProjection[11].
  • map projection's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2049547[12].
  • map projection's Quora topic ID is recorded as Map-Projection[13].
  • map projection's Quora topic ID is recorded as What-Is-Mercators-and-Boones-Projection[14].
  • map projection's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as map-projection[15].
  • map projection's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as kartprojeksjon[16].
  • map projection's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 033769[17].
  • map projection's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18].
  • map projection's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[19].
  • map projection's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 176250725[20].
  • map projection's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/3258[21].
  • map projection's KBpedia ID is recorded as MapProjection[22].
  • map projection's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C176250725[23].
  • map projection's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 151368[24].
  • map projection's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 144439[25].
  • map projection's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as projection[26].

Why It Matters

map projection ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (683 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_map-projection_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{map projection}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/map-projection}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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