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observatory

location used for observing terrestrial or celestial events
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Summary

observatory ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,813 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: architectural structure[2], observation facility[3], scientific organization[4], facility[5]
  • Commons category: Observatories[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Observatories[7]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: man_made=observatory[8], landuse=observatory[9]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[14]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox observatory[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16]

Why It Matters

observatory has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] observatory is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station Universitäts-Sternwarte München

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_observatoire_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{observatory}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/observatoire}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-16}}
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  1. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q6868
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
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