Editing Map projection (section)

===Equal-area===<!-- [[Equiareal]] links to here -->
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[[File:Mollweide projection SW.jpg|thumb|300px| The equal-area [[Mollweide projection]]]]

Equal-area maps preserve area measure, generally distorting shapes in order to do so. Equal-area maps are also called ''equivalent'' or ''authalic''. These are some projections that preserve area:

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* [[Albers conic projection|Albers conic]]
* [[Boggs eumorphic projection|Boggs eumorphic]]
* [[Bonne projection|Bonne]]
* [[Bottomley projection|Bottomley]]
* [[Collignon projection|Collignon]]
* [[Cylindrical equal-area projection|Cylindrical equal-area]]
* [[Eckert II projection|Eckert II]], [[Eckert IV projection|IV]] and [[Eckert VI projection|VI]]
* [[Equal Earth projection|Equal Earth]]
* [[Gall–Peters projection|Gall orthographic]] (also known as Gall–Peters, or Peters, projection)
* [[Goode homolosine projection|Goode's homolosine]]
* [[Hammer projection|Hammer]]
* [[Hobo–Dyer projection|Hobo–Dyer]]
* [[Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection|Lambert azimuthal equal-area]]
* [[Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection|Lambert cylindrical equal-area]]
* [[Mollweide projection|Mollweide]]
* [[Sinusoidal projection|Sinusoidal]]
* [[Strebe 1995 projection|Strebe 1995]]
* [[Snyder equal-area projection|Snyder's equal-area polyhedral projection]], used for [[geodesic grid]]s.
* [[Tobler hyperelliptical projection|Tobler hyperelliptical]]
* [[Werner projection|Werner]]
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