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The cylindrical equal-area projection is a family of cylindrical, equal area map projections including the Gall–Peters, Behrmann, Lambert projections, and others. Cylindrical projections stretch distances east-west as a function of latitude; as such, cylindrical equal-area projections have a north-south compression precisely the reciprocal of east-west stretching. The various specializations of this projection differ only in the ratio of the vertical to horizontal axis.Map: Strebe, using Geocart