New Scotland Yard

headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, Westminster, Greater London from October 2016
Place police_station Q184619
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New Scotland Yard

Summary

New Scotland Yard is a police station[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of police_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,641 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • New Scotland Yard is located in City of Westminster[3].
  • New Scotland Yard is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • New Scotland Yard's image is recorded as New Scotland Yard sign.jpg[5].
  • New Scotland Yard's instance of is recorded as police station[6].
  • Scotland is named after New Scotland Yard[7].
  • yard is named after New Scotland Yard[8].
  • New Scotland Yard's location is recorded as New Scotland Yard[9].
  • New Scotland Yard's Commons category is recorded as Scotland Yard[10].
  • +1829-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of New Scotland Yard[11].
  • New Scotland Yard's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 51.50183, 'lon': -0.12446}[12].
  • New Scotland Yard's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06rk2[13].
  • New Scotland Yard's streaming media URL is recorded as https://www.bam.co.uk/how-we-do-it/case-study/metropolitan-police-headquarters[14].
  • New Scotland Yard's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0061506[15].
  • New Scotland Yard's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Scotland-Yard[16].
  • New Scotland Yard's Open Plaques subject ID is recorded as 2448[17].
  • New Scotland Yard's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'New Scotland Yard'}[18].
  • New Scotland Yard's GeoNames ID is recorded as 6930642[19].
  • New Scotland Yard's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Scotland Yard'}[20].
  • New Scotland Yard's different from is recorded as Scotland Yard[21].
  • New Scotland Yard's NE.se ID is recorded as scotland-yard[22].
  • New Scotland Yard's Quora topic ID is recorded as Scotland-Yard[23].
  • New Scotland Yard's historic county is recorded as Middlesex[24].
  • New Scotland Yard's Lex ID is recorded as Scotland_Yard[25].
  • New Scotland Yard's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 08227756-n[26].
  • New Scotland Yard's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as scotland-yard[27].

Body

Geography

New Scotland Yard is in the country of United Kingdom[4]. It is located in City of Westminster[3].

Designation and Status

New Scotland Yard's instance of is recorded as police station[6].

History and Context

+1829-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of New Scotland Yard[11]. Things named after include Scotland[7], a constituent country of the United Kingdom[28], in United Kingdom[29], founded in 0843[30] and yard[8], an unit of length[31].

Why It Matters

New Scotland Yard ranks in the top 3% of police_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,641 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . osm4wiki.toolforge.org. osm4wiki.toolforge.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . bam.co.uk. Retrieved . bam.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). New Scotland Yard. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/scotland-yard
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