Plotting projections

As mentioned in the previous recipe, a projection is a coordinate reference system in which a map is plotted. Cartopy provides many different projections, and in this recipe, we will plot nine such projections with default arguments to demonstrate how they look. A full list of available projections can be found at https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/crs/projections.html.

Getting ready

You'll need to import the required libraries using the following commands:

import cartopy.crs as ccrs
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

How to do it...

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