Maya people

Mesoamerican ethnic group
Intangible ethnic_group Q45914
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Maya people

Summary

Maya people is an ethnic group[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,892 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Maya people's religion is recorded as Catholicism[3].
  • Maya people's religion is recorded as Protestantism[4].
  • Maya people's religion is recorded as Maya religion[5].
  • Maya people is in the country of El Salvador[6].
  • Maya people is in the country of Mexico[7].
  • Maya people is in the country of Guatemala[8].
  • Maya people is in the country of Belize[9].
  • Maya people is in the country of Honduras[10].
  • Maya people's instance of is recorded as ethnic group[11].
  • Maya people's instance of is recorded as Mesoamerican civilization[12].
  • Maya people's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Maya peoples[13].
  • Maya people has a population of {'amount': '+65000000'}[14].
  • Maya people's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[15].
  • Maya people's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • Maya people's described by source is recorded as The Catholic Encyclopedia[17].
  • Maya people's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • Maya people's different from is recorded as House of Maj[19].
  • Maya people's different from is recorded as Ma'ya people[20].
  • Maya people's language used is recorded as Mayan[21].
  • Maya people's language used is recorded as Spanish[22].
  • Maya people's language used is recorded as English[23].
  • Maya people's has works in the collection is recorded as Museum aan de Stroom[24].
  • Maya people's has works in the collection is recorded as Los Angeles County Museum of Art[25].
  • Maya people's has works in the collection is recorded as National Museum of Anthropology[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include ethnic group[11] and Mesoamerican civilization[12].

Influence

Things named for Maya people include Maya Mountain[27], a mountain[28].

Why It Matters

Maya people ranks in the top 2% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,892 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for it include Maya Mountain[27], a mountain[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] . wikidata.org.
  5. [10] . wikidata.org.
  6. [11] . wikidata.org.
  7. [12] . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] . wikidata.org.
  9. [4] . wikidata.org.
  10. [5] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Google Books. sites.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . 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. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population {'amount': '+65000000'}
    Different from House of Maj, Ma'ya people
    Country
    Population
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 647, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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