beach

area of sand or small stones near the sea or another area of water such as a lake
Thing ecosystem_type Q40080
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beach

Summary

beach is an ecosystem type[1]. beach draws 3,820 Wikipedia views per month (ecosystem_type category, ranking #2 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • beach's instance of is recorded as ecosystem type[3].
  • beach's instance of is recorded as feature type[4].
  • beach is a type of shore[5].
  • beach is a type of geographic location[6].
  • beach is a type of geographical feature[7].
  • beach's Commons category is recorded as Beaches[8].
  • beach's said to be the same as is recorded as Q3660296[9].
  • beach's Unicode character is recorded as 🏖[10].
  • beach's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Beaches[11].
  • beach's Commons gallery is recorded as Beach[12].
  • beach's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as natural=beach[13].
  • beach's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[14].
  • beach's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15].
  • beach's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16].
  • beach's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17].
  • beach's topic has template is recorded as Q25803739[18].
  • beach's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Beach[19].
  • beach's equivalent class is recorded as https://yago-knowledge.org/resource/schema:Beach[20].
  • beach's equivalent class is recorded as http://data.culture.fr/thesaurus/resource/ark:/67717/T1-14[21].
  • beach's equivalent class is recorded as http://id.cabi.org/cabt/17686[22].
  • beach's different from is recorded as urban beach[23].
  • beach's different from is recorded as seaside[24].
  • beach's different from is recorded as seashore[25].
  • beach's different from is recorded as dry lake[26].
  • beach's different from is recorded as bathing beach[27].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include ecosystem type[3] and feature type[4]. Recorded subclass of include shore[5], geographic location[6], and geographical feature[7].

Influence

Things named for beach include Point Mugu[28], a cape[29], in United States[30]; Al-Shati refugee camp[31], a refugee camp[32], in Palestine[33], founded in 1949[34]; and Strandvägen[35], an esplanade[36], in Sweden[37].

Why It Matters

beach draws 3,820 Wikipedia views per month (ecosystem_type category, ranking #2 of 8).[2] beach has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] beach is known by 86 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

Entities named for beach include Point Mugu[28], a cape[29], in United States[30]; Al-Shati refugee camp[31], a refugee camp[32], in Palestine[33], founded in 1949[34]; and Strandvägen[35], an esplanade[36], in Sweden[37].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . 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.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [37] ↑ . 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. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q4986
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 8w ago · Superraptor123 · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → shore, geographic location, geographical feature
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q107123630]]"
  3. 10w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Locations/Beach
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14470]]: Locations/Beach, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  4. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → urban beach, seaside, seashore +4
    Instance of → ecosystem type, feature type
    Described by source → Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition +1
    Subclass of → shore, geographic location, geographical feature
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: beaches, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289911446|beaches (#289911446)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
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