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The distortion of Africa goes beyond cartography; Western journalists and academics have a history of misinterpreting and misrepresenting the region.—Ian H. Solomon, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2016 Recommendations The new Museo della Forma Urbis mixes archaeology and cartography to map historical Rome.—Seth Sherwood, New York Times, 15 May 2025 Hansen offered cave tours to visitors, helped lead exploration in the more than 220-mile network of caverns and helped with biology, cartography and wildlife projects.—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2025 Being embedded in the Milky Way is actually a major obstacle to our galactic cartography, however.—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cartography
Word History
Etymology
French cartographie, from carte card, map + -graphie -graphy — more at card entry 1
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