road
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Summary
road is a type of physical object by use[1]. road draws 4,985 Wikipedia views per month (type of physical object by use category, ranking #1,443 of 6).[2]
Key Facts
- Main regulatory text: traffic code[3]
- Location: landmass[4]
- Subclass of: itinerary[5], long, thin object[6], thoroughfare[7], road or street[8], road transport infrastructure[9], linear infrastructure intrusions[10]
- Part of: roadway[11]
- Has use: traffic[12]
- Commons category: Roads[13]
- Has part(s): roadway[14], lane[15], median strip[16], shoulder[17], road verge[18], sidewalk[19], bikeway[20], subgrade[21], Subbase[22], base course[23], Paver base[24], paver[25], sand[26], parkway[27]
- Topic's main category: Category:Roads[28]
- Commons gallery: Road[29]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Roads[30]
- OpenStreetMap tag: route=road[31], highway=road[32]
- Described by source: Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[33], Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[34], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[35], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[36], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[37], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[38], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[39], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[40], Vienna Convention on Road Traffic[41], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[42], Dictionary of Urban Planning for International Professionals (1st edition)[43], Meyer’s Universum, Neunzehnter Band[44]
- Partially coincident with: street[45]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox road[46]
- Used by: cyclist[47]
- Has effect: road ecology[48], road barrier effect[49], roadkill[50], habitat fragmentation[51]
- Has characteristic: road type[52], road hierarchy[53], right- and left-hand traffic[54], type of material[55]
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Influence
Things named for road include Norway[56], a sovereign state[57], in Norway[58], founded in 1905[59]; Milky Way[60], a barred spiral galaxy[61]; The Road[62], a literary work[63], written by Cormac McCarthy[64]; stroad[65], in Canada[66]; Gumroad[67], a website[68], in United States[69], founded in 2011[70], headquartered in San Francisco[71]; roadkill[72], a cause of death[73]; As-Sirāt[74], a mythical bridge[75]; and Sirat al-Mustaqim[76], an Islamic term[77], directed by Muhammad[78].
Why It Matters
road has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[79] road is known by 85 alternative names across languages and contexts.[80]
Entities named for road include Norway[56], a sovereign state[57], in Norway[58], founded in 1905[59]; Milky Way[60], a barred spiral galaxy[61]; The Road[62], a literary work[63], written by Cormac McCarthy[64]; stroad[65], in Canada[66]; Gumroad[67], a website[68], in United States[69], founded in 2011[70], headquartered in San Francisco[71]; and roadkill[72], a cause of death[73].