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coral reef

ridge of rock in the sea formed by the growth and deposit of coral
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Summary

coral reef ranks in the top 0.77% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,537 views/month, #598 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: reef[2], bioconstruction[3], coral colony[4]
  • Commons category: Coral reefs[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Coral reefs[6]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: reef=coral[7]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[11], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12]
  • Studied by: coral reef ecology[13], coral reef biology[14]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000150[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16], Wikipedia on Aruba | Aruba on Wikipedia[17]

Why It Matters

coral reef has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Interactive coral reef

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] ↑ . wiki.openstreetmap.org. wiki.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: 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] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . 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. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1UKWL6
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → coral-reefs-and-islands
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: coral-reefs-and-islands, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289917440|coral reefs and islands (#289917440)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/cata"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001677-koralove-utesy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001677-koralove-utesy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259490|batch #259490]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Coral reefs
    Subclass of → —
    Studied by → coral reef ecology, coral reef biology
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ Yso id: 14886, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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