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internment

imprisonment or confinement of groups of people without trial
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internment

Summary

internment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,635 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • internment is a type of imprisonment[2].
  • internment's Commons category is recorded as Internment[3].
  • internment's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Internments[4].
  • internment's has facility is recorded as internment camp[5].
  • internment's different from is recorded as prisoner-of-war camp[6].

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Definition and Type

internment is a type of imprisonment[2].

Why It Matters

internment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,635 views/month).[1] internment has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] internment is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

Related Entities

extermination camp

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → prisoner-of-war camp
    Aliases → —
    Has facility → internment camp
    Subclass of → imprisonment
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 22187, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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