Great Sandy Desert

ecoregion and desert in Northern Western Australia
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Great Sandy Desert
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Summary

Great Sandy Desert is a desert[1]. It draws 1,004 Wikipedia views per month (desert category, ranking #24 of 139).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Western Australia[3], Northern Territory[4]
  • Country: Australia[5]
  • Instance of: bioregion[6]
  • Part of: Great Sandy-Tanami desert[7]
  • Commons category: Great Sandy Desert[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Great Sandy Desert[9]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[10]
  • Native label: Great Sandy Desert[11]
  • Elevation above sea level: 289 m[12]
  • Area: 284,993 km²[13]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Great Sandy Desert include Western Desert[14], a language[15], in Australia[16].

Why It Matters

Great Sandy Desert has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Entities named for it include Western Desert[14], a language[15], in Australia[16].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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