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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 91,899 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Inō Tadataka is the 44th most popular geographer (up from 52nd in 2019), the 833rd most popular biography from Japan and the most popular Japanese Geographer.

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  • 51.96

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Inō Tadataka ranks 44 out of 67Before him are Jovan Cvijić, Johann Georg Gmelin, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Otto Nordenskjöld, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, and Marie Tharp. After him are Richard Hartshorne, Erich von Drygalski, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Pedro Reinel, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, and Conrad Malte-Brun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Inō Tadataka ranks 33Before him are Maxim Berezovsky, Johann Peter Frank, Bodawpaya, Caspar Wessel, Antonio José Cavanilles, and Isaac Titsingh. After him are François-Jean de la Barre, Madhavrao I, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Félix María de Samaniego, Benjamin Rush, and Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn. Among people deceased in 1818, Inō Tadataka ranks 28Before him are Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, Marcello Bacciarelli, Herman Willem Daendels, Caspar Wessel, Anne Vallayer-Coster, and Giuseppe Gazzaniga. After him are Matvei Platov, Olof Swartz, Nicolas Isouard, Nikolay Novikov, Josef Abel, and Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Inō Tadataka ranks 833 out of 6,048Before him are Kiyoura Keigo (1850), Arai Hakuseki (1657), Yukio Endo (1937), Keisuke Honda (1986), Shōji Nishimura (1889), and Ichirō Ozawa (1942). After him are Tetsurō Tamba (1922), Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889), Meiko Kaji (1947), Daigoro Kondo (1907), Chishū Ryū (1904), and Oku Yasukata (1847).

Among GEOGRAPHERS In Japan

Among geographers born in Japan, Inō Tadataka ranks 1