dune

landform, hill of sand
Thing general Q25391
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dune

Summary

dune ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,824 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • dune is a type of aeolian landform[2].
  • dune is a type of hill[3].
  • dune is a type of Q16963184[4].
  • dune is part of dunefield[5].
  • dune's Commons category is recorded as Dunes[6].
  • dune's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dunes[7].
  • dune's Commons gallery is recorded as Dune[8].
  • dune's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as landform=dune_system[9].
  • dune's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[10].
  • dune's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • dune's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • dune's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13].
  • dune's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[14].
  • dune's different from is recorded as Dune[15].
  • dune's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000170[16].
  • dune's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include aeolian landform[2], hill[3], and Q16963184[4].

Use and Application

dune is part of dunefield[5].

Influence

Things named for dune include Dune[18], a literary work[19], written by Frank Herbert[20] and Médanos de Coro National Park[21], a national park[22], in Venezuela[23], founded in 1974[24].

Why It Matters

dune ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,824 views/month).[1] dune has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] dune is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Entities named for dune include Dune[18], a literary work[19], written by Frank Herbert[20] and Médanos de Coro National Park[21], a national park[22], in Venezuela[23], founded in 1974[24].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wiki.openstreetmap.org. wiki.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: 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] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [18] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of dunefield
    Part of
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) 1972734
    Different from Dune
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 4313, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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