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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Someone who draws a map is called a
A
journalist
B
artist
C
cartographer
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A person who makes maps is called cartographer and the practice of mapmaking and its study is known as cartography. Was this answer helpful?

Detailed explanation-2: -Definitions of cartographer. a person who makes maps.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cartographer is one who draws a map.

Detailed explanation-4: -The French word cartographie (the science of making maps), from which we get our English word cartography, was created from carte, meaning “map, ” and-graphie, meaning “representation by.” Around the same time we adopted cartography in the mid-19th century, we also created our word for a mapmaker, cartographer.

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