APOPO

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Organization non_governmental_organization Q619691
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APOPO

Summary

APOPO is a non-governmental organization[1]. APOPO draws 70 Wikipedia views per month (non_governmental_organization category, ranking #49 of 417).[2]

Key Facts

  • APOPO's field of work was demining[3].
  • APOPO's field of work was animal training[4].
  • APOPO is in the country of Belgium[5].
  • APOPO's image is recorded as A man feeding a rat at the Apopo rat training in Tanzania.jpg[6].
  • APOPO's instance of is recorded as non-governmental organization[7].
  • APOPO's instance of is recorded as educational institution[8].
  • APOPO's instance of is recorded as nonprofit organization[9].
  • APOPO's headquarters location is recorded as Morogoro[10].
  • APOPO's Commons category is recorded as APOPO[11].
  • +1997-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of APOPO[12].
  • APOPO's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05f2w62[13].
  • APOPO's official website is recorded as https://apopo.org[14].
  • APOPO's X is recorded as herorats[15].
  • APOPO's Instagram username is recorded as herorats[16].
  • APOPO's Facebook username is recorded as heroRAT[17].
  • APOPO's Crunchbase organization ID is recorded as apopo-herorats[18].
  • APOPO's YouTube channel ID is recorded as UCuK8qSq_q5Lt0RsLGnwXkmQ[19].
  • APOPO's LittleSis organization ID is recorded as 342657[20].
  • APOPO's number of viewers/listeners is recorded as {'amount': '+1376717'}[21].
  • APOPO's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+8938'}[22].
  • APOPO's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+8214'}[23].
  • APOPO's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+10162'}[24].
  • APOPO's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+12934'}[25].
  • APOPO's YouTube handle is recorded as herorats[26].
  • APOPO's Threads username is recorded as herorats[27].

Body

Founding

+1997-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of APOPO[12].

Operations

APOPO's headquarters location is recorded as Morogoro[10].

Industry

Fields of work include demining[3], a field of work[28] and animal training[4].

Why It Matters

APOPO draws 70 Wikipedia views per month (non_governmental_organization category, ranking #49 of 417).[2] APOPO has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] APOPO is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . iatiregistry.org. Retrieved . iatiregistry.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] . iatiregistry.org. Retrieved . iatiregistry.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [3] . wikidata.org.
  7. [4] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Google Knowledge Graph. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Google Knowledge Graph. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Google Knowledge Graph. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Google Knowledge Graph. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Google Knowledge Graph. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). APOPO. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/apopo
MLA “APOPO.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/apopo.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_apopo_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{APOPO}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/apopo}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): APOPO — https://4ort.xyz/entity/apopo (retrieved 2026-04-10)

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