border
legal boundary between two territorial regions
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Summary
border ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,524 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: geographical boundary[2], geographic entity[3]
- Part of: political geography[4]
- Commons category: Borders[5]
- Has part(s): boundary marker[6]
- Topic's main category: Category:Borders[7]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Borders[8]
- Described by source: Encyclopedia of Global Justice[9], Otto's encyclopedia[10], Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste[11], Pauly–Wissowa[12]
- Partially coincident with: Mark (grens)[13]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox border[14]
- Main Wikidata property: P47[15]
- Different from: frontier[16], political border[17], boundary[18], international border[19], border[20]
- Has list: list of political and geographic borders[21]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]
- Related category: Category:Border templates[23]
- P14870: ont00000685[24]
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Influence
Things named for border include Sakai River[25], a river[26], in Japan[27]; Sakai[28], an autonomous city[29], in Japan[30]; and Marchspitze[31], a mountain[32], in Austria[33].
Why It Matters
border has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] border is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]
Entities named for border include Sakai River[25], a river[26], in Japan[27]; Sakai[28], an autonomous city[29], in Japan[30]; and Marchspitze[31], a mountain[32], in Austria[33].