canyon

geomorphological formation as narrow and deep ravine between cliffs or steep mountainsides
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canyon

Summary

canyon ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (874 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • canyon's image is recorded as Roca de la Ley, Parque Nacional de Þingvellir, Suðurland, Islandia, 2014-08-16, DD 022.JPG[2].
  • canyon's GND ID is recorded as 4147252-4[3].
  • canyon's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85019838[4].
  • canyon's subclass of is recorded as fluvial landform[5].
  • canyon's subclass of is recorded as valley[6].
  • canyon's Commons category is recorded as Canyons[7].
  • canyon's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 36550[8].
  • canyon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0kh8w[9].
  • canyon's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph318948[10].
  • canyon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Canyons and gorges[11].
  • canyon's Commons gallery is recorded as Canyon[12].
  • canyon's page banner is recorded as Canyons banner.jpg[13].
  • canyon's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300008763[14].
  • canyon's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 551.442[15].
  • canyon's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10665095[16].
  • canyon's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 871313[17].
  • canyon's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0092950[18].
  • canyon's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • canyon's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • canyon's described by source is recorded as National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[21].
  • canyon's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22].
  • canyon's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[23].
  • canyon's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • canyon's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/canyon-geology[25].
  • canyon's BBC Things ID is recorded as 4ba3317a-7b5f-47ef-a89e-09014db81686[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for canyon include Absolution Gap[27], a literary work[28], written by Alastair Reynolds[29].

Why It Matters

canyon ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (874 views/month).[1] canyon has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] canyon is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for canyon include Absolution Gap[27], a literary work[28], written by Alastair Reynolds[29].

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  25. [26] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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