island

piece of sub-continental land completely surrounded by water
Thing type_of_environment Q23442
island
Rafael Ortega Díaz · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

island is a type of environment[1]. island draws 9,135 Wikipedia views per month (type of environment category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: landform[3], landmass[4], geographic location[5], physical location[6]
  • Commons category: Islands[7]
  • SRGB color hex triplet: FF0000[8]
  • Occupant: islanders[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Islands[10]
  • Commons gallery: Island[11]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Islands[12]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: place=island[13]
  • Described by source: Nordisk familjebok[14], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[16], Otto's encyclopedia[17], Skärgårdsnamn[18], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[20], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Kartographer icon[23]
  • Partially coincident with: Holm (island)[24]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox islands[25]
  • Used by: by island[26]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Island[27], https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=Island[28]
  • Different from: Wyspa[29], Songo Mnara[30]
  • Properties for this type: P206[31], P1082[32], P625[33], P17[34], P131[35], P2046[36], P2547[37], P610[38], P1332[39], P1333[40], P1334[41], P1335[42]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000098[43]

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Influence

Things named for island include Antilles[44], an archipelago[45]; island of stability[46], a zone[47]; United States Minor Outlying Islands[48], an island group[49], in United States[50], founded in 1986[51]; Kashima[52], a city of Japan[53], in Japan[54], founded in 1889[55]; Island-class patrol boat[56], a ship class[57]; Nabadwip[58], a municipality of West Bengal[59], in India[60]; Yumenoshima[61], a chōchō[62], in Japan[63]; and Island-class patrol vessel[64], a watercraft class[65], founded in 1976[66].

Why It Matters

island has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[67] island is known by 85 alternative names across languages and contexts.[68]

Entities named for island include Antilles[44], an archipelago[45]; island of stability[46], a zone[47]; United States Minor Outlying Islands[48], an island group[49], in United States[50], founded in 1986[51]; Kashima[52], a city of Japan[53], in Japan[54], founded in 1889[55]; Island-class patrol boat[56], a ship class[57]; and Nabadwip[58], a municipality of West Bengal[59], in India[60].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [67] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [68] ↑ . 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. 18d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Ayomi
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Island, https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=Island"
  2. 7w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C8176
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C8176, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  3. 10w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Partially coincident with → Holm (island)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Partially coincident with: Holm (island)"
  4. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Locations/Island
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Locations/Island, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  5. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → hornbill
    Used by → by island
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q26773, Import ID Biblissima V2 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/74d891b831c|details]])"
  6. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1gmnAA
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  7. 14w ago · Breogan2008 · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 136782
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Enciclopedia galega universal id: 136782"
  8. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → islands
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: islands, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289938058|islands (#289938058)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  9. 15w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 3343
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 3343, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107285558|islands (#107285558)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classica"
  10. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002329-ostrovy
    Subclass of → landform, landmass, geographic location +1
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002329-ostrovy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  11. 21w ago · Niryhpr · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → landform, landmass, geographic location +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: ethnic enclave"
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