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which country was used the map for first time

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Answered by smartyprince
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The first Greek to draw a world map using the assumption of a spherical earth was Eratosthenes. Ptolomey first drew maps of the world using latitudes and longitudes and conic projection.
Answered by Dev01010
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The Greeks are credited with putting map making on a sound mathematical footing. The earliest Greek known to have made a map of the world was Anaximander. In 6th century BC, he drew a map of the then known world, assuming that the earth was cylindrical.
The first Greek to draw a world map using the assumption of a spherical earth was Eratosthenes. Ptolomey first drew maps of the world using latitudes and longitudes and conic projection.
In 150 AD he produced a six-volume atlas called Geographia containing several maps of the world known during his time.
— V Venkata Rao, Ahmedabad
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