bay

body of water connected to an ocean or lake, formed by an indentation of the shoreline
Thing feature_type Q39594
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Summary

bay is a feature type[1]. bay draws 4,314 Wikipedia views per month (feature type category, ranking #6 of 14).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: shoreline indentation[3], water area[4]
  • Commons category: Bays[5]
  • Said to be the same as: gulf[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bays[7]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: natural=bay[8]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[9], Otto's encyclopedia[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox bay[12]
  • Different from: Bugt[13], Bucht[14], Buĥto[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16]
  • Category for eponymous categories: Catégorie:Catégorie d'une baie[17]

Body

Influence

Things named for bay include Bay-class frigate[18], a ship class[19], founded in 1945[20].

Why It Matters

bay has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] bay is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Entities named for bay include Bay-class frigate[18], a ship class[19], founded in 1945[20].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Q24410361. 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] ↑ . 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. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q4856
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 16w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX525570
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0): XX525570"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Bugt, Bucht, Buĥto
    Topic has template → Template:Infobox bay
    Subclass of → shoreline indentation, water area
    Instance of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 9749, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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