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topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks
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karst

Summary

karst ranks in the top 0.82% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33,839 views/month, #637 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • karst is a type of landform[2].
  • karst is a type of geological formation[3].
  • karst is part of landscape[4].
  • karst is part of karst area[5].
  • karst's Commons category is recorded as Karst[6].
  • karst's has cause is recorded as karstification[7].
  • karst's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Karst[8].
  • karst's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • karst's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • karst's has characteristic is recorded as drainage system[11].
  • karst's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Karst'}[12].
  • karst's different from is recorded as Kras[13].
  • karst's different from is recorded as pseudokarst[14].
  • karst's studied by is recorded as karstology[15].
  • karst's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000175[16].
  • karst's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include landform[2] and geological formation[3].

Use and Application

Part of include landscape[4] and karst area[5].

Why It Matters

karst ranks in the top 0.82% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33,839 views/month, #637 of 77,819).[1] karst has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] karst is known by 92 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . 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. 4d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 75
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'be', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'cy', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||sq, ha */ import labels from sitelinks"
  2. 10w ago · Putnik · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → landform, geological formation
    Has cause → karstification
    Part of → landscape, karst area
    Has characteristic → drainage system
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P7666]]: karstas-1"
  3. 13w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → landform, geological formation
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q736917]]"
  4. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003340-krasove-utvary, 0379499-kras
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0003340-krasove-utvary, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  5. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Kras, pseudokarst
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → landform, geological formation
    Described by source → Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 15690, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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