Lake Erçek

lake in Turkey
LakeBodyOfWater lake Q1366366
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Lake Erçek

Summary

Lake Erçek is a lake[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of lake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Lake Erçek is located in İpekyolu district[3].
  • Lake Erçek is located in Tuşba district[4].
  • Lake Erçek is located in Van Province[5].
  • Lake Erçek is in the country of Turkey[6].
  • Lake Erçek's image is recorded as Erchek Lake.jpg[7].
  • Lake Erçek's instance of is recorded as lake[8].
  • Lake Erçek's inflows is recorded as Q16371101[9].
  • Lake Erçek's basin country is recorded as Turkey[10].
  • Lake Erçek's Commons category is recorded as Lake Erçek[11].
  • Lake Erçek's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 1808092[12].
  • Lake Erçek's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 38.6717, 'lon': 43.5783}[13].
  • Lake Erçek's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09gbcqm[14].
  • Lake Erçek's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0511996[15].
  • Lake Erçek's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 2[16].
  • Lake Erçek's described by source is recorded as Dictionary of Place Names in Armenia and Adjacent Areas[17].
  • Lake Erçek's heritage designation is recorded as Important Bird Area[18].
  • Lake Erçek's GeoNames ID is recorded as 315534[19].
  • Lake Erçek's length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+16'}[20].
  • Lake Erçek's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+1880'}[21].
  • Lake Erçek's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+106.2'}[22].
  • Lake Erçek's width is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+10'}[23].
  • Lake Erçek's volume as quantity is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25517', 'amount': '+1959390000'}[24].
  • Lake Erçek's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as -748122[25].
  • Lake Erçek's vertical depth is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+30'}[26].
  • Lake Erçek's BirdLife International IBA ID is recorded as erçek-lake-iba-türkiye[27].

Body

Geography

Lake Erçek is in the country of Turkey[6]. Located in include İpekyolu district[3], a town[28], in Turkey[29], founded in 2012[30]; Tuşba district[4], a town[31], in Turkey[32], founded in 2012[33]; and Van Province[5], a province of Turkey[34], in Turkey[35].

Physical Characteristics

Lake Erçek's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+106.2'}[22]. Its elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+1880'}[21]. Its length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+16'}[20].

Designation and Status

Lake Erçek's instance of is recorded as lake[8]. Its heritage designation is recorded as Important Bird Area[18].

Why It Matters

Lake Erçek ranks in the top 4% of lake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] . wikidata.org.
  6. [5] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . datazone.birdlife.org. datazone.birdlife.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . 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.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . 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. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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