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Inō Tadataka

1745 - 1818

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Inō Tadataka (伊能 忠敬, February 11, 1745 - May 17, 1818) was a Japanese surveyor and cartographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Inō Tadataka has received more than 108,267 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Inō Tadataka is the 49th most popular geographer (down from 44th in 2019), the 879th most popular biography from Japan (down from 830th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Geographer.

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  • 59.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Inō Tadataka ranks 49 out of 86. Before him are Erich von Drygalski, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Marie Tharp, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, Jan Janssonius, and Yi-Fu Tuan. After him are Richard Hartshorne, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Arnold Henry Guyot, Pedro Reinel, Hans Meyer, and Yves Lacoste.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Inō Tadataka ranks 35. Before him are Olaudah Equiano, Johann Peter Frank, François-Jean de la Barre, Antonio José Cavanilles, Gim Hongdo, and Johann Anton Güldenstädt. After him are Franciszek Smuglewicz, Johann Peter Salomon, Benjamin Rush, Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Félix María de Samaniego, and Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn. Among people deceased in 1818, Inō Tadataka ranks 30. Before him are Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Caspar Wessel, Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, Herman Willem Daendels, Anne Vallayer-Coster, and Matvei Platov. After him are Olof Swartz, Nicolas Isouard, Nikolay Novikov, Josef Abel, Ivan Kulibin, and Martha Christina Tiahahu.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Inō Tadataka ranks 879 out of 6,245. Before him are Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889), Kyuichi Tokuda (1894), Koji Kondo (1961), Matsudaira Sadanobu (1759), Kiyonao Ichiki (1892), and Nobuyuki Oishi (1939). After him are Yuki Fushimi (1950), Kishin Shinoyama (1940), Kazumi Takada (1951), Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896), Mitsuo Watanabe (1953), and Keisuke Honda (1986).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Japan

Among geographers born in Japan, Inō Tadataka ranks 1. 

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