canal
man-made channel for water
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Summary
canal is a type of watercourse[1]. canal draws 3,609 Wikipedia views per month (type of watercourse category, ranking #1 of 9).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: type of structure[3]
- Subclass of: hydraulic structure[4], artificial body of water[5], linear construction[6], watercourse[7], infrastructure[8], architectural structure[9], transport network[10]
- Commons category: Canals[11]
- Has part(s): lock[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Canals[13]
- Commons gallery: Canal[14]
- OpenStreetMap tag: waterway=canal[15]
- Described by source: Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[16], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[17], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[20], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21], New International Encyclopedia[22], The New Student's Reference Work[23], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9[24], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[25], Dictionary of Civil Engineering Terminology (1st edition)[26]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox canal[27]
- Equivalent class: https://schema.org/Canal[28]
- Different from: channel[29], stream[30]
- Disjoint union of: list of values as qualifiers[31]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000014[32]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[33], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[34]
- Category for eponymous categories: Category:Wikipedia categories named after canals[35]
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Influence
Things named for canal include Canal City Hakata[36], a shopping center[37], in Japan[38], founded in 1996[39].
Why It Matters
canal has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] canal is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]
Entities named for canal include Canal City Hakata[36], a shopping center[37], in Japan[38], founded in 1996[39].