Bab-el-Mandeb

strait located between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa
Place strait Q83318
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Bab-el-Mandeb

Summary

Bab-el-Mandeb is a strait[1]. Bab-el-Mandeb ranks in the top 2% of strait entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,123 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Bab-el-Mandeb is in the country of Yemen[3].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb is in the country of Djibouti[4].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb is in the country of Eritrea[5].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's instance of is recorded as strait[6].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 247384671[7].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's GND ID is recorded as 4575483-4[8].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's locator map image is recorded as Locatie Bab el Mandeb.PNG[9].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's IdRef ID is recorded as 195474600[10].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's Commons category is recorded as Bab-el-Mandeb[11].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 11169730[12].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's has part is recorded as Dact-el-Mayun[13].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's has part is recorded as Bab Iskender[14].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 12.583333333333, 'lon': 43.333333333333}[15].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gt80[16].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bab-el-Mandeb[17].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0006455[18].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[19].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[20].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[23].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[24].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedic Lexicon[25].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[26].
  • Bab-el-Mandeb's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[27].

Body

Geography

Country listings include Yemen[3], a sovereign state[28], in Yemen[29], founded in 1990[30]; Djibouti[4], a country[31], in Djibouti[32], founded in 1977[33]; and Eritrea[5], a sovereign state[34], in Eritrea[35], founded in 1993[36].

Designation and Status

Bab-el-Mandeb's instance of is recorded as strait[6].

Why It Matters

Bab-el-Mandeb ranks in the top 2% of strait entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,123 views/month).[2] Bab-el-Mandeb has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Bab-el-Mandeb is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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