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Inō Tadataka

1745 - 1818

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Inō Tadataka (伊能 忠敬; Japanese pronunciation: [iꜜ.noː | ta.daꜜ.ta.ka], 11 February 1745 - 17 May 1818) was a Japanese surveyor and cartographer. He is known for completing the first map of Japan using modern surveying techniques. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Inō Tadataka is the 52nd most popular geographer (down from 49th in 2019), the 928th most popular biography from Japan (down from 879th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Inō Tadataka ranks 52 out of 86. Before him are Yi-Fu Tuan, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Jehuda Cresques, Jan Janssonius, Claes Jansz. Visscher, and Hans Meyer. After him are August Heinrich Petermann, Emmanuel de Martonne, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Guillaume Delisle, Yves Lacoste, and Pedro Reinel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Inō Tadataka ranks 34. Before him are Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Antonio José Cavanilles, Bodawpaya, Johann Peter Frank, Maxim Berezovsky, and Franciszek Smuglewicz. After him are Olaudah Equiano, Benjamin Rush, Johann Gottfried Köhler, Gim Hongdo, François-Jean de la Barre, and Johann Peter Salomon. Among people deceased in 1818, Inō Tadataka ranks 31. Before him are Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Herman Willem Daendels, Nicolas Isouard, and Matvei Platov. After him are Martha Christina Tiahahu, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Nikolay Novikov, Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, and Ivan Kulibin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Inō Tadataka ranks 928 out of 6,245. Before him are Nagakura Shinpachi (1839), Takuboku Ishikawa (1886), Jirō Minami (1874), Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948), Katsuyuki Kawachi (1955), and Ken Shimura (1950). After him are Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Kaneto Shindo (1912), Takehiko Inoue (1967), Osachi Hamaguchi (1870), Yamamoto Kansuke (1493), and Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Japan

Among geographers born in Japan, Inō Tadataka ranks 1. 

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