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Junkanoo

national cultural festival of The Bahamas on Boxing Day and New Year's Day
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Summary

Junkanoo is a form of festival[1]. Junkanoo draws 2,083 Wikipedia views per month (form of festival category, ranking #2 of 18).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: The Bahamas[3]
  • Named after: John Canoe[4]
  • Commons category: Junkanoo[5]
  • Different from: Pinkster[6]
  • Uses: junkanoo[7]
  • Intangible cultural heritage status: Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity[8]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[9]

Why It Matters

Junkanoo has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] Junkanoo is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

The Bahamas

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Retrieved . ich.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. 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. 4d ago · Infrastruktur · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Named after: John Conny"
  2. 6d ago · Infrastruktur · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 15
    Named after → John Conny
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fr', 'ig', 'it', 'nl', 'nn', 'no', 'p
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Named after: John Conny"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Intangible cultural heritage status → Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
    Uses → —
    Uses → junkanoo
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007549301705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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