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Great Victoria Desert

desert in Western Australia and South Australia
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Great Victoria Desert
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Summary

Great Victoria Desert is a desert[1]. It draws 1,202 Wikipedia views per month (desert category, ranking #23 of 139).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Western Australia[3], South Australia[4]
  • Country: Australia[5]
  • Instance of: WWF ecoregion[6], bioregion[7], IBRA bioregion[8]
  • Named after: Victoria[9]
  • Commons category: Great Victoria Desert[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Great Victoria Desert[11]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[12], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[14]
  • Native label: Great Victoria Desert[15]
  • Elevation above sea level: 353 m[16]
  • Area: 348,750 km²[17]
  • Width: 700 km[18]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19]

Why It Matters

Great Victoria Desert has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Australia Victoria

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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