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Yves Lacoste

1929 - Today

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Yves Lacoste (born 7 September 1929), is a French geographer, known for his political commitment and contributions to geopolitics. Born in Rabat, Morocco, the son of a geologist, Jean Lacoste, and a librarian, he spent his childhood in the city before continuing his secondary education at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux (Seine) and his higher education at the Sorbonne. After obtaining his post-graduate diploma on the geomorphology of the Rharb plain in Morocco, Lacoste passed the agrégation in geography in 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yves Lacoste has received more than 54,150 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Yves Lacoste is the 55th most popular geographer, the 76th most popular biography from Morocco and the most popular Moroccan Geographer.

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  • 54k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Yves Lacoste ranks 55 out of 86. Before him are Inō Tadataka, Richard Hartshorne, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Arnold Henry Guyot, Pedro Reinel, and Hans Meyer. After him are Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Guillaume Delisle, Emmanuel de Martonne, Claes Jansz. Visscher, August Heinrich Petermann, and Torsten Hägerstrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Yves Lacoste ranks 240. Before him are Berry Gordy, Claude Goretta, Józef Glemp, Miyoshi Umeki, Liselotte Pulver, and Lolita Torres. After him are Lyudmila Zykina, Leila Abashidze, Ulla Jacobsson, Franca Rame, Gérard de Villiers, and John Osborne.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Yves Lacoste ranks 76 out of 264. Before him are Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco (1978), Ahmed Aboutaleb (1961), Ahmed Osman (1930), Ezzaki Badou (1959), Ibrahim ibn Tashfin (1131), and Ibn 'Idhari (1300). After him are Mustapha Hadji (1971), Dunash ben Labrat (920), Saadeddine Othmani (1956), Dominique Mamberti (1952), Driss Chraïbi (1926), and Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco (1970).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Morocco

Among geographers born in Morocco, Yves Lacoste ranks 1. 

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