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Edam

Dutch cheese
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Summary

Edam ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,493 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Named after: Edam[2]
  • Made from material: cow's milk[3]
  • Subclass of: cow's-milk cheese[4], Dutch cheese[5], pressed uncooked cheese[6]
  • Commons category: Edam cheese[7]
  • Country of origin: Netherlands[8]
  • Has part(s): cow's milk[9]
  • Location of creation: Edam-Volendam[10], Edam[11]
  • PH value: 5.40[12]

Why It Matters

Edam has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] Edam is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Netherlands

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Tine. tine.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Over two thousand estimations of the pH of representative foods. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location of creation → Edam-Volendam, Edam
    Has parts → —
    Named after → Edam
    Subclass of → cow's-milk cheese, Dutch cheese, pressed uncooked cheese
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 39390, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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