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Elephantine

island in the Nile, Egypt
Place river_island Q284009
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Summary

Elephantine is a river island[1]. Elephantine ranks in the top 2% of river island entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,596 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Aswan Governorate[3]
  • Country: Egypt[4]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Nile[5]
  • Commons category: Elephantine[6]
  • Has part(s): Ruins of Elephantine[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Elephantine[8]
  • Described by source: Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[11], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13]
  • Different from: Elephant Island[14], Q141237880[15]
  • Elevation above sea level: 101 m[16]
  • Drainage basin: Nile basin[17]

Why It Matters

Elephantine has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] Elephantine is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Egypt Nile

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . 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. 3d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'be', 'br', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/58669|batch #58669]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 6w ago · MMLBS · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Elephant Island, Q141237880
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: Q141237880"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia +2
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 24.09, 'lon': 32.89}
    Country → —
    Has part(s) → Ruins of Elephantine
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 158754, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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