Great Smoky Mountains

American mountain range along North Carolina/Tennessee border
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Great Smoky Mountains
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The Great Smoky Mountains are a mountain range[1][2] located in North Carolina[3][1][2]. They are situated in the United States[4][3][1][2] on the continent of North America[3]. The range covers an area of approximately 5.3k square miles[1].

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: North Carolina[3], Tennessee[4]
  • Country: United States[5]
  • Continent: North America[6]
  • Commons category: Great Smoky Mountains[7]
  • Highest point: Kuwohi[8]
  • Official website: http://www.nps.gov/grsm/[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Great Smoky Mountains[10]
  • Has characteristic: tourist attraction[11]
  • Elevation above sea level: 2037 m[12], 1248 m[13], 2025 m[14]
  • Area: 5349 km²[15]
  • Language used: Cherokee[16]
  • Located in protected area: Great Smoky Mountains National Park[17]
  • Mountain range: Blue Ridge Mountains[18]
  • Has boundary: Bald Mountains[19], Unicoi Mountains[20], Plott Balsams[21]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Great Smoky Mountains include zugshunstite-(Ce)[22], a mineral species[23].

Why It Matters

Great Smoky Mountains has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Entities named for it include zugshunstite-(Ce)[22], a mineral species[23].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . peakbagger.com. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . peakbagger.com. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . peakbagger.com. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → great-smoky-mountains
    Sitelink count → 28
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'bn', 'ceb', 'chr', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fr
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: great-smoky-mountains, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289934390|great smoky mountains (#289934390)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/"
  2. 6w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap relation id → 16786085
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Openstreetmap relation id: 16786085, Adding OSM relation id claim from wikidata tag on relation/16786085"
  3. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinates → —
    Has boundary → Bald Mountains, Unicoi Mountains, Plott Balsams
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → North Carolina, Tennessee
    Instance of → mountain range
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39782|batch #39782]]: Move Q570116 from P31 -> P1552"
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