bay

body of water connected to an ocean or lake, formed by an indentation of the shoreline
Thing feature_type Q39594
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bay

Summary

bay is a feature type[1]. bay draws 1,488 Wikipedia views per month (feature_type category, ranking #6 of 14).[2]

Key Facts

  • bay's instance of is recorded as feature type[3].
  • bay is a type of shoreline indentation[4].
  • bay is a type of water area[5].
  • bay's Commons category is recorded as Bays[6].
  • bay's said to be the same as is recorded as gulf[7].
  • bay's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bays[8].
  • bay's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as natural=bay[9].
  • bay's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[10].
  • bay's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[11].
  • bay's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • bay's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox bay[13].
  • bay's different from is recorded as Bugt[14].
  • bay's different from is recorded as Bucht[15].
  • bay's different from is recorded as Buĥto[16].
  • bay's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17].
  • bay's category for eponymous categories is recorded as Q59240974[18].

Body

Definition and Type

bay's instance of is recorded as feature type[3]. Recorded subclass of include shoreline indentation[4] and water area[5].

Influence

Things named for bay include Bay-class frigate[19], a ship class[20], founded in 1945[21].

Why It Matters

bay draws 1,488 Wikipedia views per month (feature_type category, ranking #6 of 14).[2] bay has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] bay is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Entities named for bay include Bay-class frigate[19], a ship class[20], founded in 1945[21].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Q24410361. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [19] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] . 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. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from Bugt, Bucht, Buĥto
    Topic has template Template:Infobox bay
    Subclass of shoreline indentation, water area
    Instance of
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 9749, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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