National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

agency in the United States Federal Government
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Summary

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is an United States federal agency[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of united states federal agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,778 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Headquarters location: Silver Spring[4]
  • Flag: flag of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration[5]
  • Child organization or unit: National Weather Service[6], National Geodetic Survey[7], Hollings Marine Laboratory[8], National Marine Fisheries Service[9], National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service[10], Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory[11], National Ocean Service[12], Earth System Research Laboratory[13], Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research[14], National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science[15], Air Resources Laboratory[16], Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory[17], South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium[18], Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve[19]

Why It Matters

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . commerce.maryland.gov. Retrieved . commerce.maryland.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . 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. 9w ago · Pierre cb · 2026-08-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Director / manager → Rick Spinrad, Kathryn D. Sullivan
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Director / manager: Neil Jacobs"
  2. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → noaa
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: noaa, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289952778|noaa (#289952778)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → Yv70g
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 15w ago · Huntster · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap relation id → —
    Child organization or unit → National Weather Service, National Geodetic Survey, Hollings Marine Laboratory +62
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Child organization or unit: National Centers for Environmental Information"
  5. 24w ago · Ipoellet · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap relation id → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Openstreetmap relation id: 20513176"
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