Hoy

island in the Orkney Islands group, Scotland, UK
Landform island Q1139771
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Hoy

Summary

Hoy is an island[1]. Hoy ranks in the top 6% of island entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (40 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hoy is located in Orkney Islands[3].
  • Hoy is located in Hoy and Graemsay[4].
  • Hoy is in the country of United Kingdom[5].
  • Hoy is on the body of water Atlantic Ocean[6].
  • Hoy's image is recorded as Hoy Orkney Landesinnere.JPG[7].
  • Hoy's instance of is recorded as island[8].
  • Hoy's capital is recorded as Lyness[9].
  • Hoy's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 132287778[10].
  • Hoy's locator map image is recorded as VK Hoy.PNG[11].
  • Hoy's locator map image is recorded as Ork Hoy.jpg[12].
  • Hoy's part of is recorded as Orkney Islands[13].
  • Hoy's Commons category is recorded as Hoy[14].
  • Hoy's located in time zone is recorded as UTC±00:00[15].
  • Hoy's highest point is recorded as Ward Hill[16].
  • Hoy's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 58.85, 'lon': -3.3}[17].
  • Hoy's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05nx7[18].
  • Hoy's located in/on physical feature is recorded as North Sea[19].
  • Hoy's official website is recorded as http://www.hoyorkney.com[20].
  • Hoy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hoy, Orkney[21].
  • Hoy's page banner is recorded as Hoy banner view from Dunnet Head.jpg[22].
  • Hoy's Curlie ID is recorded as Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Orkney_Islands/Hoy/[23].
  • Hoy's population is recorded as {'amount': '+419'}[24].
  • Hoy's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[25].
  • Hoy's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[26].
  • Hoy's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Hoy-island-Orkney-Islands-Scotland[27].

Why It Matters

Hoy ranks in the top 6% of island entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (40 views/month).[2] Hoy has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . wikidata.org.
  7. [6] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . scotlandscensus.gov.uk. scotlandscensus.gov.uk. Provenance: 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.

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