National Mall

park in Washington, D.C.
Park avenue Q465811
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Summary

National Mall is an avenue[1]. It ranks in the top 0.85% of avenue entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,822 views/month, #1 of 117).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Washington, D.C.[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: square[5], park[6]
  • Architect: Pierre Charles L’Enfant[7]
  • Operator: National Mall and Memorial Parks[8]
  • Designed by: Pierre Charles L’Enfant[9]
  • Commons category: National Mall[10]
  • Inception: 1791[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:National Mall[12]
  • Facet of: L'Enfant Plan[13], McMillan Plan[14]
  • Phone number: +1 202-485-9880[15]
  • Described by source: SAH Archipedia[16]
  • Heritage designation: National Register of Historic Places listed place[17], District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites[18]
  • Official name: The Mall[19], National Mall[20]
  • Length: 3.2 km[21], 2 miles[22]
  • Elevation above sea level: 20 feet[23]
  • Appears in the heritage monument list: National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington, D.C.[24]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q49569936[25]
  • Category for maps or plans: Category:Maps of the National Mall[26]

Why It Matters

National Mall has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . RAMEAU. Retrieved . npgallery.nps.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . Library of Congress Subject Headings. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . RAMEAU. Retrieved . nps.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . RAMEAU. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . National Register of Historic Places nomination form. Retrieved . npgallery.nps.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . National Register of Historic Places nomination form. Retrieved . npgallery.nps.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . National Register of Historic Places nomination form. Retrieved . npgallery.nps.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . washington.org. washington.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . National Register Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . DC Historic Sites. Retrieved . planning.dc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Geographic Names Information System. Retrieved . geonames.usgs.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Geographic Names Information System. Retrieved . nps.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Geographic Names Information System. Retrieved . geonames.usgs.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Geographic Names Information System. Retrieved . geonames.usgs.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Geographic Names Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 12d ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'az', 'ba', 'be', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo',
    Sitelink count → 48
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ remove badge sitelink to redirect from eswiki sitelink; sitelink points to a non-redirect page #msynbotTask10"
  2. 6w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Continent → —
    Harper's tag → national-mall
    Openstreetmap relation id → 21064981
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Openstreetmap relation id: 11158003"
  3. 12w ago · CommonsDelinker bot · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nighttime view → Veterans Day concert in 2014 on the National Mall photo Don
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Nighttime view: Veterans Day concert on the National Mall photo D Ramey Logan.jpg"
  4. 15w ago · Trivialist · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → avenue, square, park
    Wikidata description → park in Washington, D.C.
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||ru, lt */ Cleanup: remove redundant+self_stated_in refs; remove alias=label/mul ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  5. 18w ago · ZFT · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Architect → Pierre Charles L’Enfant
    Worldcat entities id → E39PBJk93PMQtg6XtdJFMBh4MP
    Vatican library id (former scheme) → ADV11433254, ADV11433255, ADV11433256
    Aliases → —
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: national park"
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