Geographic Projections

This shows 4 possible projections using subplot. Matplotlib also supports Basemaps Toolkit and Cartopy for geographic projections.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.figure()
plt.subplot(111, projection="aitoff")
plt.title("Aitoff")
plt.grid(True)

plt.figure()
plt.subplot(111, projection="hammer")
plt.title("Hammer")
plt.grid(True)

plt.figure()
plt.subplot(111, projection="lambert")
plt.title("Lambert")
plt.grid(True)

plt.figure()
plt.subplot(111, projection="mollweide")
plt.title("Mollweide")
plt.grid(True)

plt.show()