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Western Alps

western parts of the Alps mountain range in Central Europe
Place Mountain Range Q74259

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
mountain range, alpine main part[6]

Location

Country
France, Italy, Switzerland, Monaco[2][3][4][5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 45.834°, 6.865°
Shares border with
Eastern Alps, Apennines, Rhône, Jura Mountains, Po Valley, Ligurian Sea[7][8][9][10][11][12]

Population and size

Area
+74952[18]
Elevation above sea level
+4810[17]
Highest point
Mont Blanc[14]
Length
+300[16]
More facts +4
Part of
Alps[13]
Described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[15]
Mountain range
Alps[20]
Width
+384[19]
🏷️ Also known as
en Western Alps ar جبال الألب الغربية cs Západní Alpy cs Alps occidentals cs Westalpen cs Alpi Occidentali cs Alpes occidentales da Vestalperne da De Franske Alper el Δυτικές Άλπεις es Alpes del noroeste es Alpes del sudoeste es Alpes franceses fa آلپ غربی fi Länsi-Alpit fi Läntiset Alpit hu Nyugati-Alpok ja 西アルプス山脈 ko 서알프스산맥 pl Alpy Zachodnie
🔖 Identifiers · 16
VIAF cluster ID
315530690
GND ID
4079204-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Lacs de Cheserys.jpg ↗
BabelNet ID
03333297n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
120300409
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Western-Alps
Freebase ID
/m/0jwtwj2
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1hc0gxkh4
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1988112
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
zapadnye-al-py-40d2cb
NL CR AUT ID
ge128610
OpenStreetMap node ID
4855618221
Show all 16 identifiers +4
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrtTObQSiYwNH
SVKKL authority ID
0201059-Zapadni-Alpy-pohori
Topic's main category
Category:Western Alps
Yale LUX ID
place/082b2bf4-2a46-4da8-adaa-d562e2d0a570

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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 6
Ligurian Sea, Apennines, Rhône, Jura Mountains, Po Valley, Eastern Alps
Country 4
France, Italy, Switzerland, Monaco
Located in this place 3
Italian invasion of France, Air India Flight 101, Second Battle of the Alps
← Located in/on physical feature 2
Arpitania, Briançonnais zone
Belongs to 1
Alps
Described by source 1
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Highest point 1
Mont Blanc
Instance of 1
mountain range
Mountain range 1
Alps
Part of 1
Alps
Topic's main category 1
Category:Western Alps
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Western Alps
← Mountain range 1
French Prealps
← SNARC ID 1
St Stephen's House
← Shares border with 1
Eastern Alps
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Summary

Western Alps is a mountain range[1].

Related Entities

Alps Apennines France Italy Monaco Switzerland

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  16. [17] ↑ . peakbagger.com. peakbagger.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . 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. 25d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 4079204-3
    Bibliothèque nationale de France ID → 120300409
    "Created claim: Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 120300409"
  2. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Western Alps
    SVKKL authority ID → 0201059-Zapadni-Alpy-pohori
    Instance of → mountain range, alpine main part
    Mountain range → Alps
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0201059-Zapadni-Alpy-pohori, batch #259497"
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