drought

extended period when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply
Thing condition Q43059
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drought

Summary

drought is a condition[1]. drought ranks in the top 10% of condition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,016 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • drought's instance of is recorded as condition[3].
  • drought's instance of is recorded as disaster[4].
  • drought's instance of is recorded as natural disaster[5].
  • drought is a type of meteorological disaster[6].
  • drought is a type of dryness[7].
  • drought's Commons category is recorded as Drought[8].
  • drought's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Droughts[9].
  • drought's facet of is recorded as meteorology[10].
  • drought's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[11].
  • drought's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[12].
  • drought's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[13].
  • drought's has contributing factor is recorded as global warming[14].
  • drought's has effect is recorded as famine[15].
  • drought's has effect is recorded as biodiversity loss[16].
  • drought's has effect is recorded as mass migration[17].
  • drought's has effect is recorded as humanitarian crisis[18].
  • drought's has effect is recorded as food crisis[19].
  • drought's has effect is recorded as poverty[20].
  • drought's has effect is recorded as water scarcity[21].
  • drought's has effect is recorded as hunger[22].
  • drought's has effect is recorded as malnutrition[23].
  • drought's has effect is recorded as dehydration[24].
  • drought's has effect is recorded as unrest[25].
  • drought's has effect is recorded as war[26].
  • drought's has characteristic is recorded as absence[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include condition[3], disaster[4], and natural disaster[5]. Recorded subclass of include meteorological disaster[6] and dryness[7].

Influence

Things named for drought include hunger stone[28].

Why It Matters

drought ranks in the top 10% of condition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,016 views/month).[2] drought has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] drought is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for drought include hunger stone[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Retrieved . 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] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Kakaqui2050 · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image Drought.jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P18]]: Seca no Rio Negro em 2010.jpg"
  2. 24d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id 0216329-sucha
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0216329-sucha, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  3. 4w ago · EPorto (WMB) · 2026-06-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project WikiProject Climate change, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/34829|batch #34829]]"
  4. 9w ago · Nat (WDU) · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Undrr-isc hazard information profile id MH0401
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/29431|batch #29431]]: UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID for extreme weather events"
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