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peatland

terrain where peat has accumulated, either former (drained) wetland or wetland actively forming peat
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peatland

Summary

peatland ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (284 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • peatland is a type of ecosystem[2].
  • peatland is a type of wetland[3].
  • peatland's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Peatlands[4].
  • peatland's described at URL is recorded as https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geography/research/projects/tropical-peatland/what-are-peatlands[5].
  • peatland's described at URL is recorded as https://peatlands.org/peatlands/[6].
  • peatland's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7].
  • peatland's different from is recorded as marsh[8].
  • peatland's different from is recorded as bog[9].
  • peatland's studied by is recorded as peatland ecology[10].
  • peatland's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000044[11].
  • peatland's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[12].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include ecosystem[2] and wetland[3].

Why It Matters

peatland ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (284 views/month).[1] peatland has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] peatland is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). peatland. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/peatland
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  1. 6d ago · InternetArchiveBot bot · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Peatlands
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → marsh, bog
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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