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Burray

island of the Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
Landform island Q928684
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Summary

Burray is an island[1]. Burray ranks in the top 6% of island entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (105 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Orkney Islands[3], South Ronaldsay[4]
  • Country: United Kingdom[5]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Scapa Flow[6]
  • Part of: Orkney Islands[7]
  • Commons category: Burray[8]
  • Located in/on physical feature: North Sea[9]
  • Population: 409[10]
  • Length: 5 km[11]
  • Area: 9.03 km²[12]
  • Historic county: Orkney Islands[13]

Why It Matters

Burray has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] Burray is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . 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. 6d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 22
    Located in time zone → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['ast', 'ceb', 'commons', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fi', 'fr',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/58669|batch #58669]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 17w ago · Abductive · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in/on physical feature → North Sea
    Located in or next to body of water → Scapa Flow
    Country → —
    Population → —
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Coordinate location: 58°51'9"N, 2°54'54"W"
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