Lira

municipality in Lira District, Northern Region, Uganda
City city Q1015699
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Lira

Summary

Lira is a city[1]. Lira draws 47 Wikipedia views per month (city category, ranking #716 of 5,534).[2]

Key Facts

  • Lira is located in Northern Region[3].
  • Lira is in the country of Uganda[4].
  • Lira's image is recorded as Lira Uganda 2010 01 04.JPG[5].
  • Lira's instance of is recorded as city[6].
  • Lira's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 142363117[7].
  • Lira's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as nr2004022853[8].
  • Lira's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12470427q[9].
  • Lira's Commons category is recorded as Lira, Uganda[10].
  • Lira's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+03:00[11].
  • +1919-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Lira[12].
  • Lira's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 2.2488888888889, 'lon': 32.9}[13].
  • Lira's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05x5nn[14].
  • Lira's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Lira, Uganda[15].
  • Lira's MusicBrainz area ID is recorded as bcf92e2d-fc72-4ac5-af90-a7dd854a0fe8[16].
  • Lira's population is recorded as {'amount': '+116500'}[17].
  • Lira's WOEID is recorded as 1453310[18].
  • Lira's capital of is recorded as Lira District[19].
  • Lira's category for people born here is recorded as Category:Births in Lira, Uganda[20].
  • Lira's category for people who died here is recorded as Category:Deaths in Lira[21].
  • Lira's GeoNames ID is recorded as 7732230[22].
  • Lira's category of associated people is recorded as Category:People from Lira, Uganda[23].
  • Lira's UN/LOCODE is recorded as UGLIR[24].
  • Lira's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+1080'}[25].
  • Lira's Quora topic ID is recorded as Lira-Uganda[26].
  • Lira's Who's on First ID is recorded as 421199639[27].

Body

Geography

Lira is in the country of Uganda[4]. Lira is located in Northern Region[3].

Physical Characteristics

Lira's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+1080'}[25]. Lira's population is recorded as {'amount': '+116500'}[17].

Designation and Status

Lira's instance of is recorded as city[6].

History and Context

+1919-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Lira[12].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Lira include Lira District[28], a district of Uganda[29], in Uganda[30] and Lira Airport[31], an airport[32], in Uganda[33].

Why It Matters

Lira draws 47 Wikipedia views per month (city category, ranking #716 of 5,534).[2] Lira has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34]

Entities named for Lira include Lira District[28], a district of Uganda[29], in Uganda[30] and Lira Airport[31], an airport[32], in Uganda[33].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . monitor.co.ug. monitor.co.ug. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . BnF authorities. Retrieved . 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] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 2.0. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . service.unece.org. service.unece.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . 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. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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