Mechelen

village in Gulpen-Wittem, Netherlands
Place cadastral_populated_place_in_the_netherlands Q100020
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Mechelen

Summary

Mechelen is a cadastral populated place in the Netherlands[1]. Mechelen ranks in the top 8% of cadastral_populated_place_in_the_netherlands entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Mechelen is located in Gulpen-Wittem[3].
  • Mechelen is in the country of Netherlands[4].
  • Mechelen is on the body of water Lombergbeek[5].
  • Mechelen is on the body of water Geul[6].
  • Mechelen is on the body of water Elzetergrub[7].
  • Mechelen is on the body of water Spetsensweidebeek[8].
  • Mechelen's image is recorded as Mechelewkped08.jpg[9].
  • Mechelen's instance of is recorded as cadastral populated place in the Netherlands[10].
  • Mechelen's instance of is recorded as village[11].
  • Mechelen's postal code is recorded as 6280–6281[12].
  • Mechelen's Commons category is recorded as Mechelen (Netherlands)[13].
  • Mechelen's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 2721282[14].
  • Mechelen's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+01:00[15].
  • Mechelen's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 50.7964, 'lon': 5.925}[16].
  • Mechelen's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bcwkc[17].
  • Mechelen's located in/on physical feature is recorded as Geuldal[18].
  • Mechelen's BAG residence ID is recorded as 1231[19].
  • Mechelen's GeoNames ID is recorded as 2751077[20].
  • Mechelen's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as -2149212[21].
  • Mechelen's Who's on First ID is recorded as 101810581[22].
  • Mechelen's FactGrid item ID is recorded as Tzvi Avni[23].
  • Mechelen's RKD thesaurus ID is recorded as 16867[24].
  • Mechelen's WikiKids ID is recorded as Mechelen_(Nederland)[25].

Body

Geography

Mechelen is in the country of Netherlands[4]. Mechelen is located in Gulpen-Wittem[3]. Adjacent water bodies include Lombergbeek[5], a stream[26], in Netherlands[27]; Geul[6], a river[28], in Netherlands[29]; Elzetergrub[7], a brook[30], in Netherlands[31]; and Spetsensweidebeek[8], a brook[32], in Netherlands[33].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include cadastral populated place in the Netherlands[10] and village[11].

Why It Matters

Mechelen ranks in the top 8% of cadastral_populated_place_in_the_netherlands entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month).[2] Mechelen has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [9] . wikidata.org.
  3. [10] . wikidata.org.
  4. [11] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . cbs.nl. Retrieved . cbs.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [5] . wikidata.org.
  7. [6] . wikidata.org.
  8. [7] . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . cbs.nl. Retrieved . cbs.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . FactGrid. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [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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