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bayou

Franco-American term for a body of water typically found in flat, low-lying area
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bayou

Summary

bayou ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,344 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • bayou is in the country of United States[2].
  • bayou is a type of body of water[3].
  • bayou's Commons category is recorded as Bayous[4].
  • bayou's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[5].
  • bayou's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'BYU'}[6].
  • bayou's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000234[7].

Body

Definition and Type

bayou is a type of body of water[3].

Why It Matters

bayou ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,344 views/month).[1] bayou has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8]

Related Entities

United States

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] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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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. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → body of water
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007282424405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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