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isthmus

narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas
Class type of: landform Q93267

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
type of environment
Subclass of
landform
Described by source
Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[5][6][7][8]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[9]
OpenStreetMap tag
natural=isthmus[4]
Opposite of
strait[3]
P14541
4A42gk[10]
P14692
Kamose[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en isthmus ar برزخ ar البرزخ cs okřídlí cs pevninská šíje cs převlaka da landtange da tange da drag de Landenge de Isthmos de Landbrücke de Landbrücken el Ισθμός es istmo es istmos fa باریکه خاکی fi kannakset fi kannas fr isthme
🔖 Identifiers · 30
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85068754
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
The Neck Bruny Island.jpg ↗
Arabic Ontology concept ID
293856
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300008794
BNCF Thesaurus ID
34598
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
114748
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/isthmus
Environment Ontology ID
00000174
Exact match
purl.obolibrary.org
Freebase ID
/m/011vvm
GeoNames feature code
T.ISTH
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11bc66by92
Show all 30 identifiers +18
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
istme-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0118043
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
eid
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2331064
Iconclass notation
25H142
KBpedia ID
Isthmus
Krugosvet article (archived)
Earth_sciences/geografiya/PERESHEEK.html
Lex ID
tange
NLS place type ID
1010125
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007565293105171
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
683956
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3963630
Quora topic ID
Isthmus
ScienceDirect topic ID
earth-and-planetary-sciences/isthmus, physics-and-astronomy/isthmus
Topic's main category
Category:Isthmuses
Vikidia article ID
es:Istmo, fr:Isthme
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
09342510-n
YSO ID
23315

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🔗 Connections
Examples 20
Isthmus of Panama, Isthmus of Corinth, Karelian Isthmus, Isthmus of Perekop, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Kra Isthmus, Isthmus of Suez, Isthmus of Chignecto +12 more
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language
Subtypes 2
tombolo, land bridge
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Opposite of 1
strait
Subclass of 1
landform
Topic's main category 1
Category:Isthmuses
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Isthmuses
← FactGrid item ID 1
Wehretal
← Field of work 1
Jeremy B. C. Jackson
← Opposite of 1
strait
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Summary

isthmus is a type of environment[1]. isthmus is a type of landform[2].

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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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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. 11w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Kamose
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4A42gk
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → type of environment
    Subclass of → landform
    Opposite of → strait
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ YSO ID: 23315, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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