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Stereographic projection of the world north of 30°S. 15° graticule.
The stereographic projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation.

The stereographic projection, also known as the planisphere projection or the azimuthal conformal projection, is a conformal map projection whose use dates back to antiquity. Like the orthographic projection and gnomonic projection, the stereographic projection is an azimuthal projection, and when on a sphere, also a perspective projection.

On an ellipsoid, the perspective definition of the stereographic projection is not conformal, and adjustments must be made to preserve its azimuthal and conformal properties. The universal polar stereographic coordinate system uses one such ellipsoidal implementation.

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Stereographic map projection

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Gall stereographic projection

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Orthographic map projection

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Roussilhe oblique stereographic projection

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Map projection

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Peirce quincuncial projection

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Mercator projection

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Equirectangular projection

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List of map projections

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Azimuthal equidistant projection

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Dymaxion map

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Winkel tripel projection

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Robinson projection

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General Perspective projection

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Mollweide projection

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Universal polar stereographic coordinate system

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Goode homolosine projection

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Equal Earth projection

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Transverse Mercator projection

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AuthaGraph projection

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Sinusoidal projection

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Lambert conformal conic projection

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