sand

Summary

sand ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,305 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• sand is a type of granular material^[2].
• sand is a type of natural building material^[3].
• sand is a type of clastic sediment^[4].
• sand is a type of dry bulk cargo^[5].
• sand's Commons category is recorded as Sand^[6].
• sand's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sand^[7].
• sand's Commons gallery is recorded as Sand^[8].
• sand's facet of is recorded as road^[9].
• sand's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as resource=sand^[10].
• sand's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[11].
• sand's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng^[12].
• sand's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[13].
• sand's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work^[14].
• sand's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1^[15].
• sand's different from is recorded as Arena^[16].
• sand's different from is recorded as Sand^[17].
• sand's different from is recorded as Q6757098^[18].
• sand's different from is recorded as Q125499041^[19].
• sand's studied by is recorded as sedimentology^[20].
• sand's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000017^[21].
• sand's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[22].
• sand's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Soil^[23].
• sand's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Geology^[24].
• sand's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Materials^[25].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include granular material^[2], natural building material^[3], clastic sediment^[4], and dry bulk cargo^[5].

Influence

Things named for sand include Ramla^[26], a city^[27], in Israel^[28]; sand^[29], a color^[30]; Sandy Township^[31], a township of Ohio^[32], in United States^[33], founded in 1809^[34]; Sand Island^[35], a river island^[36], in Poland^[37]; and Pes'yanka^[38], a hamlet^[39], in Russia^[40], founded in 1916^[41].

Why It Matters

sand ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,305 views/month).^[1] sand has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[42] sand is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[43]

Entities named for sand include Ramla^[26], a city^[27], in Israel^[28]; sand^[29], a color^[30]; Sandy Township^[31], a township of Ohio^[32], in United States^[33], founded in 1809^[34]; Sand Island^[35], a river island^[36], in Poland^[37]; and Pes'yanka^[38], a hamlet^[39], in Russia^[40], founded in 1916^[41].