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penal colony

remote settlement used to house convicts from the general population
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penal colony
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Summary

penal colony ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,576 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • penal colony is a type of prison[2].
  • penal colony is a type of remote area[3].
  • penal colony is a type of colony[4].
  • penal colony is a type of colony[5].
  • penal colony's Commons category is recorded as Penal colonies[6].
  • penal colony's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Former penal colonies[7].
  • penal colony's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies[8].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include prison[2], remote area[3], and colony[4].

Why It Matters

penal colony ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,576 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 23d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → penal-colonies
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: penal-colonies, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289954246|penal colonies (#289954246)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's "
  2. 17w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  3. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0010254-trestanecke-kolonie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0010254-trestanecke-kolonie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → prison, remote area, colony +1
    Topic's main category → Category:Former penal colonies
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007533826005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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