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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 is a geography term[1]. bayou draws 7,096 Wikipedia views per month (geography_term category, ranking #1,071 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • bayou is in the country of United States[3].
  • bayou's instance of is recorded as geography term[4].
  • bayou is a type of body of water[5].
  • bayou's Commons category is recorded as Bayous[6].
  • bayou's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7].
  • bayou's short name is recorded as BYU[8].
  • bayou's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000234[9].

Body

Definition and Type

bayou's instance of is recorded as geography term[4]. bayou is a type of body of water[5].

Why It Matters

bayou draws 7,096 Wikipedia views per month (geography_term category, ranking #1,071 of 3).[2] bayou has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] bayou is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

United States

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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. 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. 3d ago · Mxn · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → geography term
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q66747521]]"
  2. 16w 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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