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Giant's Causeway

rock formation on the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland
Place landform Q106187
Giant's Causeway

Facts

16 properties

Designation

Instance of
landform, columnar basalt[5]
Heritage designation
World Heritage Site[13]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 55.241°, -6.512°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
County Antrim, Causeway Coast and Glens[2][3]
More facts +11
Official website
www.giantscausewayofficialguide.com[7]
Facet of
columnar jointing[8]
Described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyer’s Universum, Zweiter Band[9][10][11][12]
Has characteristic
tourist attraction[14]
Historic county
County Antrim[18]
Maintained by
National Trust[6]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]
P14541
2VGNx3[23]
P14586
77925[24]
Social media followers
10k (9.7k–10k, n=4)[19][20][21][22]
World Heritage criteria
(vii), (viii)[15][16]
🏷️ Also known as
en Giant's Causeway en Giants' Causeway en Gyants Causey en Gyants Cawsway en Giants Causeway ar ممر العمالقة cs Obrovy schody cs Obrův chodník cs Clochán an Aifir da Giants Causeway de Giant’s Causeway de Giant's Causeway de Giants Causeway el Πέρασμα των Γιγάντων el Λιθόστρωτο των Γιγάντων el Λιθόστρωτη Λεωφόρος των Γιγάντων es Calzada de los Gigantes es The Giant's Causeway es Calzada del Gigante es Calzada y Costa del Gigante
🔖 Identifiers · 21
VIAF cluster ID
237490572
GND ID
7610860-0
Atlas Obscura place ID
giants-causeway
BBC Things ID
2f62df61-035d-4f80-8f4d-b04bcc6f8824
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
334631
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Giants-Causeway
Freebase ID
/m/01fp4_
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2596929
GeoNames ID
7521399, 2648688
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Giant's_Causeway
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2234448
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
mostovaia-gigantov-04fd77
Show all 21 identifiers +9
Lex ID
Giant's_Causeway
Logainm ID
1417365
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1430482
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
10442
Vikidia article ID
en:Giant's_Causeway, es:Calzada_del_Gigante, fr:Chaussée_des_Géants
Wikisimpsons article ID
20986
World Heritage Site ID
369
X (Twitter) username
GCausewayNT
Yale LUX ID
place/5dead44f-90a0-4ef2-b010-55cb0bf8aa5e
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/London 2026-09-26 T/CAPE · GB GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Described by source 3
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Instance of 3
landform, tourist attraction, columnar basalt
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
County Antrim, Causeway Coast and Glens
Country 1
United Kingdom
Facet of 1
columnar jointing
Heritage designation 1
World Heritage Site
Historic county 1
County Antrim
Maintained by 1
National Trust
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
← FactGrid item ID 1
Belmont-sur-Buttant
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Summary

Giant's Causeway is a landform[1].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2VGNx3
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 17w ago · Sabelöga · 2026-07-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikisimpsons article ID → 20986
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Wikisimpsons article ID: 20986, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/296188821|Giant's Causeway (#296188821)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8109|Wikisimpsons"
  3. 18w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → landform, columnar basalt
    Has characteristic → tourist attraction
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39782|batch #39782]]: Move Q570116 from P31 -> P1552"
  4. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14586 → 77925
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14586: 77925, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782930762135"
  5. 25w ago · Jarkn · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinates → —
    Described by source → The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary +1
    Social media followers → {'amount': '+9891'}, {'amount': '+9695'}, {'amount': '+10052'} +1
    Maintained by → National Trust
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Described at URL: https://www.placemania.sk/svetova-zaujimavost/obrove-schody/, Removing PlaceMania.sk P973 link added by me after COI/spam concern; see User talk:Jarkn"
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