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Summary
lake is a feature type[1]. lake draws 8,620 Wikipedia views per month (feature type category, ranking #3 of 14).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: still waters[3], open water[4], landform[5], overground still body of fresh water[6]
- Commons category: Lakes[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Lakes[8]
- Commons gallery: Lake[9]
- OpenStreetMap tag: water=lake[10]
- Depicted by: Le acque sognanti. L'enigma del lago[11]
- Described by source: Nordisk familjebok[12], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[16], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[17], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox lake[20], Q26189069[21], Template:Lake-stub[22]
- Used by: by lake[23]
- Main Wikidata property: P469[24]
- Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Lake[25], https://schema.org/LakeBodyOfWater[26], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000020[27]
- Different from: lake water body[28]
- Properties for this type: P625[29], P200[30], P201[31], P2044[32], P2046[33], P2043[34], P2049[35], P2234[36], P2053[37], P2547[38], P2610[39], P3020[40], P4511[41], P571[42]
- Studied by: limnology[43]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q134291924[44]
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Influence
Things named for lake include Los Angeles Lakers[45], a basketball team[46], in United States[47], founded in 1946[48], headquartered in Los Angeles[49]; Lake County[50], a county of Florida[51], in United States[52], founded in 1887[53]; Australopithecus anamensis[54], a fossil taxon[55]; Llagostera[56], a municipality of Catalonia[57], in Spain[58]; Almere[59], in Netherlands[60]; Noripterus[61], a fossil taxon[62]; Meerstad[63]; and Yanacocha (Asunción)[64].
Why It Matters
lake has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[65] lake is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[66]
Entities named for lake include Los Angeles Lakers[45], a basketball team[46], in United States[47], founded in 1946[48], headquartered in Los Angeles[49]; Lake County[50], a county of Florida[51], in United States[52], founded in 1887[53]; Australopithecus anamensis[54], a fossil taxon[55]; Llagostera[56], a municipality of Catalonia[57], in Spain[58]; Almere[59], in Netherlands[60]; and Noripterus[61], a fossil taxon[62].