Mapoon

town in Queensland, Australia
Place town Q1892102
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Summary

Mapoon is a town[1]. Mapoon ranks in the top 5% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (104 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Queensland[3], Aboriginal Shire of Mapoon[4]
  • Country: Australia[5]
  • Instance of: locality[6], Indigenous Australian community[7]
  • Shares border with: Injinoo[8], Jardine River[9], Mission River[10], Gulf of Carpentaria[11], Shelburne[12], Wenlock[13]
  • Postal code: 4874[14]
  • Commons category: Mapoon, Queensland[15]
  • Population: 266[16], 317[17], 469[18], 425[19]
  • Female population: 159[20]
  • Male population: 151[21]
  • Elevation above sea level: 15 m[22]
  • Associated electoral district: Cook[23], Leichhardt[24]

Why It Matters

Mapoon has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Mapoon is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [3] ↑ . quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Australian Bureau of Statistics. censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . censusdata.abs.gov.au. censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . abs.gov.au. Retrieved . abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . abs.gov.au. abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . censusdata.abs.gov.au. censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . censusdata.abs.gov.au. censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. 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. 4d ago · HvW · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → town, locality, Indigenous Australian community
    Located in → —
    Population → —
    Country → Australia
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Located in the administrative territorial entity: Shire of Cook"
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