European Article Number

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European Article Number

Summary

European Article Number ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (472 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • European Article Number's image is recorded as EAN13.svg[2].
  • Europe is named after European Article Number[3].
  • European Article Number's subclass of is recorded as linear barcode[4].
  • European Article Number's subclass of is recorded as Global Trade Item Number[5].
  • European Article Number's subclass of is recorded as product code[6].
  • European Article Number's subclass of is recorded as Japanese Industrial Standards[7].
  • European Article Number's Commons category is recorded as International Article Number (EAN)[8].
  • European Article Number's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08stws[9].
  • European Article Number's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/ean-13[10].
  • European Article Number's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as identifiers/ean[11].
  • European Article Number's TDKIV term ID is recorded as 000002605[12].
  • European Article Number's JIS standard is recorded as X0501[13].
  • European Article Number's GitHub topic is recorded as ean13[14].
  • European Article Number's TDKIV Wikibase ID is recorded as Watford[15].

Why It Matters

European Article Number ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (472 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . Wikibase TDKIV. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). European Article Number. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/european-article-number
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_european-article-number_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{European Article Number}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/european-article-number}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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