Wau

city in northwestern South Sudan
Place big_city Q276534
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Wau

Summary

Wau is a big city[1]. Wau draws 68 Wikipedia views per month (big_city category, ranking #230 of 300).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wau is located in Western Bahr el Ghazal[3].
  • Wau is in the country of South Sudan[4].
  • Wau's image is recorded as Huts outside Wau,Sudan.jpg[5].
  • Wau's instance of is recorded as big city[6].
  • Wau's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 145560177[7].
  • Wau's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n92042547[8].
  • Wau's Commons category is recorded as Wau[9].
  • Wau's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+02:00[10].
  • Wau's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 7.7, 'lon': 27.983333333333}[11].
  • Wau's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b58cv[12].
  • Wau's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Wau[13].
  • Wau's population is recorded as {'amount': '+320752'}[14].
  • Wau's capital of is recorded as Western Bahr el Ghazal[15].
  • Wau's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Wau-South-Sudan[16].
  • Wau's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'واو'}[17].
  • Wau's category for people born here is recorded as Category:Births in Wau, South Sudan[18].
  • Wau's GeoNames ID is recorded as 363885[19].
  • Wau's BBC Things ID is recorded as 12c1e912-edce-41e2-951b-2847d2e6d360[20].
  • Wau's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'واو'}[21].
  • Wau's category of associated people is recorded as Category:People of Wau, South Sudan[22].
  • Wau's UN/LOCODE is recorded as SSWUU[23].
  • Wau's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+438'}[24].
  • Wau's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as -17461[25].
  • Wau's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Wau[26].
  • Wau's Who's on First ID is recorded as 421203053[27].

Body

Geography

Wau is in the country of South Sudan[4]. Wau is located in Western Bahr el Ghazal[3].

Physical Characteristics

Wau's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+438'}[24]. Wau's population is recorded as {'amount': '+320752'}[14].

Designation and Status

Wau's instance of is recorded as big city[6].

Why It Matters

Wau draws 68 Wikipedia views per month (big_city category, ranking #230 of 300).[2] Wau has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Wau is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . csrf-southsudan.org. csrf-southsudan.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . service.unece.org. service.unece.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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