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red-light district

an urban area with a high concentration of sex-related businesses
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red-light district

Summary

red-light district ranks in the top 0.27% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,718 views/month, #210 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • red-light district is a type of neighborhood[2].
  • red-light district is a type of entertainment district[3].
  • red-light district's Commons category is recorded as Red-light districts[4].
  • red-light district's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Red-light districts[5].
  • red-light district's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as leisure=red_light_district[6].
  • red-light district's different from is recorded as safelight[7].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include neighborhood[2] and entertainment district[3].

Why It Matters

red-light district ranks in the top 0.27% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,718 views/month, #210 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → safelight
    P14692 → Q7216
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
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