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ministry

type of top-level division of public administration
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Summary

ministry is a legal form[1]. ministry draws 3,882 Wikipedia views per month (legal form category, ranking #14 of 73).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: government agency[3]
  • Commons category: Ministries[4]
  • Said to be the same as: government secretariat[5], line ministry[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Government ministries[7]
  • Facet of: government[8]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: government=ministry[9]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox ministry[13]
  • Different from: public prosecutor's office[14]
  • Position held by head of the organization: minister[15], secretary of state[16]
  • P14692: Riehen[17]
  • P14968: arthropod[18]

Why It Matters

ministry has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] ministry is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Cross River State Ministry of Environment Ivan Bartoš line ministry Maneka Gandhi Minister of Housing Ministry for Economic Policy and Development of the Czech Republic Ministry for State Security Ministry of Defence Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Maharashtra Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Ministry of National Defence Ministry of Planning of the Czech Socialist Republic Secretariat of Institutional Relations of Brazil

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . 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. 3d ago · Sadads · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'br', 'bxr', 'ckb', 'cs', 'cv', 'da', 'de', 'el
    Sitelink count → 68
    P14968 → arthropod
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14968: Q1360, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/291586|batch #291586]]"
  2. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Riehen
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0006094-ministerstva
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0006094-ministerstva, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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