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ring road

type of road encircling a settlement
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ring road

Summary

ring road ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,224 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • ring road is a type of street[2].
  • ring road is a type of bypass[3].
  • ring road's Commons category is recorded as Beltways[4].
  • ring road's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ring roads[5].
  • ring road's shape is recorded as simple closed curve[6].
  • ring road's different from is recorded as circle route[7].
  • ring road's category for eponymous categories is recorded as Category:Wikipedia categories named after ring roads[8].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include street[2] and bypass[3].

Why It Matters

ring road ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,224 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

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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.

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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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_ring-road_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{ring road}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/ring-road}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-02}}
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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. 14d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX535359
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P950]]: XX535359"
  2. 18d ago · GiovanniPen · 2026-09-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → street, bypass
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 100920
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q34442]]"
  3. 10w ago · Jlwoodwa · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for eponymous categories → Category:Wikipedia categories named after ring roads
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P6186]]: [[Q132201277]]"
  4. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0424025-mestske-okruhy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0424025-mestske-okruhy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  5. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → street, bypass
    Different from → circle route
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007283276105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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