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American Geographical Society

non profit organization of professional geographers
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Summary

American Geographical Society is a geographical society[1]. It draws 257 Wikipedia views per month (geographical society category, ranking #3 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: OpenStreetMap U.S.[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: New York City[4]
  • Country: United States[5]
  • Instance of: publishing house[6]
  • Headquarters location: Manhattan[7]
  • Commons category: American Geographical Society[8]
  • Chairperson: Marie Price[9]
  • Inception: 1851[10]
  • Official website: https://americangeo.org/[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:American Geographical Society[12]
  • Short name: AGS[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher[14]

Why It Matters

American Geographical Society has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

New York City publishing house Sigrid Undset United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . grid.ac. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . openstreetmap.us. openstreetmap.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → United States
    Topic's main category → Category:American Geographical Society
    Website → —
    Instance of → geographical society, publishing house
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: american-geographical-society, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289913293|american geographical society (#289913293)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-"
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