title: Managing projections when plotting in Geopandas
body: <p>I am using geopandas to draw a map of Italy.    </p>
  
  <pre><code>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  
  fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize = (20,30))
  
  region_map.plot(ax=ax, color='white', edgecolor='black')
  plt.xlim([6,19])
  plt.ylim([36,47.7])
  plt.tight_layout()
  plt.show()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And this is the results, after properly defining <code>region_map</code> as a piece of 'geometry' GeoSeries .</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9QKgJ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9QKgJ.png" alt="map of italy"></a></p>
  
  <p>However, I am unable to modify the figure aspect ratio, even varying <code>figsize</code> in <code>plt.subplots</code>. Am I missing something trivial, or is it likely to be a geopandas issue?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks </p>