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Dust Bowl

period of severe dust storms in North America
Event environmental_disaster Q726501
Dust Bowl
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Summary

Dust Bowl is an environmental disaster[1]. It draws 19,323 Wikipedia views per month (environmental disaster category, ranking #1 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Canada[3], United States[4]
  • Commons category: Dust Bowl[5]
  • Has part(s): dust storm[6]
  • Start time: 1930[7]
  • End time: 1936[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Dust Bowl[9]
  • Facet of: Great Depression[10], agrarian history[11], history of human migration[12], economic history of the United States[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14]

Why It Matters

Dust Bowl has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Canada The Grapes of Wrath United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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