archipelago

collection of islands including the water around them; use island group (Q1402592) for a collection of islands excluding neighbouring water
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archipelago

Summary

archipelago ranks in the top 0.37% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,387 views/month, #291 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • archipelago is a type of landmass[2].
  • archipelago is a type of island group[3].
  • archipelago's Commons category is recorded as Archipelagoes[4].
  • archipelago's sRGB color hex triplet is recorded as CC1F00[5].
  • archipelago's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Archipelagoes[6].
  • archipelago's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as place=archipelago[7].
  • archipelago's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[8].
  • archipelago's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9].
  • archipelago's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • archipelago's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • archipelago's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 2[12].
  • archipelago's described by source is recorded as Kartographer icon[13].
  • archipelago's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Archipelago[14].
  • archipelago's different from is recorded as island group[15].
  • archipelago's has list is recorded as list of archipelagos[16].
  • archipelago's has part is recorded as island[17].
  • archipelago's has part is recorded as islet[18].
  • archipelago's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000220[19].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include landmass[2] and island group[3].

Influence

Things named for archipelago include South China Sea Islands[20].

Why It Matters

archipelago ranks in the top 0.37% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,387 views/month, #291 of 77,819).[1] archipelago has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] archipelago is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Entities named for archipelago include South China Sea Islands[20].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [20] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from island group
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    Subclass of landmass, island group
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