Greenwich meridian

meridian passing through Greenwich, London
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Greenwich meridian

Summary

Greenwich meridian is a prime meridian[1]. It draws 618 Wikipedia views per month (prime_meridian category, ranking #1 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • Greenwich meridian is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • Greenwich meridian's image is recorded as Prime-meridian.jpg[4].
  • Greenwich meridian's instance of is recorded as prime meridian[5].
  • Greenwich meridian's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85078295[6].
  • Greenwich meridian's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 16518948g[7].
  • Greenwich meridian's Commons category is recorded as Greenwich prime meridian[8].
  • Greenwich meridian's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 59401[9].
  • Greenwich meridian's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 51.477811111111, 'lon': -0.001475}[10].
  • Greenwich meridian's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0j7n5d4[11].
  • Greenwich meridian's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[12].
  • Greenwich meridian's different from is recorded as prime meridian[13].
  • Greenwich meridian's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1931247[14].
  • Greenwich meridian's NE.se ID is recorded as greenwichmeridianen[15].
  • Greenwich meridian's Quora topic ID is recorded as Prime-Meridian[16].
  • Greenwich meridian's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as nullmeridian[17].
  • Greenwich meridian's Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID is recorded as grinvico-dienovidinis[18].
  • Greenwich meridian's Atlas Obscura place ID is recorded as the-real-greenwich-prime-meridian-london-england[19].
  • Greenwich meridian's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007536149705171[20].
  • Greenwich meridian's KBpedia ID is recorded as PrimeMeridian-Greenwich[21].
  • Greenwich meridian's Mapy.com ID is recorded as area&id=113490[22].
  • Greenwich meridian's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as engineering/greenwich-meridian[23].
  • Greenwich meridian's Vikidia article ID is recorded as es:Meridiano_de_Greenwich[24].
  • Greenwich meridian's Vikidia article ID is recorded as eu:Greenwich_meridianoa[25].
  • Greenwich meridian's Vikidia article ID is recorded as fr:Méridien_de_Greenwich[26].
  • Greenwich meridian's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as hkm9q3m3[27].

Body

Geography

Greenwich meridian is in the country of United Kingdom[3].

Designation and Status

Greenwich meridian's instance of is recorded as prime meridian[5].

Why It Matters

Greenwich meridian draws 618 Wikipedia views per month (prime_meridian category, ranking #1 of 7).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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