ranch

area of landscape used for ranching
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ranch

Summary

ranch ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,299 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • ranch is a type of human settlement[2].
  • ranch is a type of human-geographic territorial entity[3].
  • ranch is a type of agricultural complex[4].
  • ranch's Commons category is recorded as Ranches[5].
  • ranch's said to be the same as is recorded as cattle station[6].
  • ranch's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ranches[7].
  • ranch's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[8].
  • ranch's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9].
  • ranch's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[10].
  • ranch's different from is recorded as Ranczo[11].
  • ranch's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001207[12].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include human settlement[2], human-geographic territorial entity[3], and agricultural complex[4].

Influence

Things named for ranch include ranch dressing[13], founded in 1950[14].

Why It Matters

ranch ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,299 views/month).[1] ranch has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] ranch is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Entities named for ranch include ranch dressing[13], founded in 1950[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] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [13] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [14] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from Ranczo
    Said to be the same as cattle station
    Subclass of
    Topic's main category Category:Ranches
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|12 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 8222, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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