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River Usk

river in southern Wales
Place river Q19699

Facts

9 properties

Identity

Instance of
river

Location

Country
United Kingdom[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.536°, -2.983°, 🗺️ 51.901°, -3.718°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Monmouthshire, Wales[2][3]

Population and size

Length
+112[13]
More facts +4
Described by source
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11][12]
Historic county
Monmouthshire[14]
Mouth of the watercourse
Bristol Channel[5]
Tributary
Afon Lwyd, Afon Tarell, River Clydach, River Gavenny, Ebbw River[6][7][8][9][10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Afon Wysg en River Usk en Usk ar نهر أوسك da Usk (flod) he אסק (ויילס) hi उस्क नदी ja アスク川 ja ウスク川 ru Аск tr Usk Nehri uk Аск (річка) zh 阿斯克河
🔖 Identifiers · 15
VIAF cluster ID
315169480
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
River Usk in the Brecon Beacons National Park.jpg ↗
BBC Things ID
11200c50-3eb9-4bfd-b4c9-1df57316d23d
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
43837
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/River-Usk
Freebase ID
/m/01cxh_
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2610615
GeoNames ID
2635051
Harper's tag
usk-river
National Library of Wales Authority ID
usk-river-3, usk-river-wales, usk-5, usk-river
OpenStreetMap relation ID
4248512
SNARC ID
1979 World Rally Championship season
Show all 15 identifiers +3
TermCymru ID
169458324
Topic's main category
Category:River Usk
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["River", "RiverUsk::pr4z3"]
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
← Located in or next to body of water 7
Newport, Brecon, Abergavenny, Llanbadoc, Trallong, Newport, Gilwern
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Wales, Monmouthshire
Tributary 2
Ebbw River, Afon Lwyd
← Mouth of the watercourse 2
Ebbw River, Afon Lwyd
Country 1
United Kingdom
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Has these parts 1
Severn Estuary
Historic county 1
Monmouthshire
Instance of 1
river
Mouth of the watercourse 1
Bristol Channel
SNARC ID 1
1979 World Rally Championship season
← Crosses 1
Newport Transporter Bridge
← Tributary 1
Bristol Channel
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Summary

River Usk is a river[1].

Related Entities

Newport United Kingdom Wales

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. 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. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → United Kingdom
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Monmouthshire, Wales
    Coordinates → —
    Harper's tag → usk-river
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: usk-river, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289966466|usk river (#289966466)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
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