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settlement with restrictions on ingress and egress
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closed city

Summary

closed city ranks in the top 0.9% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,625 views/month, #701 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • closed city is a type of human settlement[2].
  • closed city is a type of Russian object of federal importance[3].
  • closed city is a type of administrative divisions of Russia[4].
  • closed city is a type of exclusion zone[5].
  • closed city's Commons category is recorded as Closed cities in Russia[6].
  • closed city's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Closed cities[7].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include human settlement[2], Russian object of federal importance[3], administrative divisions of Russia[4], and exclusion zone[5].

Why It Matters

closed city ranks in the top 0.9% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,625 views/month, #701 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_closed-city_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{closed city}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/closed-city}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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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. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → human settlement, Russian object of federal importance, administrative divisions of Russia +1
    Wikidata description → settlement with restrictions on ingress and egress
    Topic's main category → Category:Closed cities
    Aliases → —
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987013324139005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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