boulder

natural rock fragment larger than 25.6 cm in diameter (larger than 200 mm diameter according to ISO 14688)
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Summary

boulder ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (128 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • boulder's main regulatory text is recorded as ISO 14688[2].
  • boulder is a type of rock fragment[3].
  • boulder is a type of landscape element[4].
  • boulder is part of lithosphere[5].
  • boulder's Commons category is recorded as Boulders[6].
  • boulder's Unicode character is recorded as 🪨[7].
  • boulder's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Boulders[8].
  • boulder's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as natural=stone[9].
  • boulder's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[10].
  • boulder's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • boulder's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[12].
  • boulder's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • boulder's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • boulder's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15].
  • boulder's different from is recorded as Glaz[16].
  • boulder's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'centimetre', 'amount': '+25.6'}[17].
  • boulder's permanent duplicated item is recorded as boulder[18].
  • boulder's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Geology[19].
  • boulder's P14692 is recorded as Ahogbèya[20].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include rock fragment[3] and landscape element[4].

Use and Application

boulder is part of lithosphere[5].

Why It Matters

boulder ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (128 views/month).[1] boulder has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] boulder is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . vro.agriculture.vic.gov.au. vro.agriculture.vic.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. 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. 9d ago · Treisijs · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Geology
    Sitelink count → 45
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'cv', 'de', 'el', 'en', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Maintained by wikiproject: WikiProject Geology"
  2. 5w ago · Putnik · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → rieduliai
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: rieduliai"
  3. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → lithosphere
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → Glaz
    Part of → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
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