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shelter

building, structure, and/or natural formation that provides protection, or a place of refuge, within the local environment
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shelter

Summary

shelter ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (231 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • shelter is a type of refuge[2].
  • shelter is used for protection[3].
  • shelter is used for survival[4].
  • shelter is used for comfort[5].
  • shelter's Commons category is recorded as Shelters[6].
  • shelter's topic's main category is recorded as Q9868857[7].
  • shelter's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=shelter[8].
  • shelter's earliest date is recorded as -500000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • shelter's has immediate cause is recorded as weather[10].
  • shelter's has immediate cause is recorded as conflict[11].
  • shelter's different from is recorded as Q4470720[12].

Body

Definition and Type

shelter is a type of refuge[2].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include protection[3], survival[4], and comfort[5].

Why It Matters

shelter ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (231 views/month).[1] shelter has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] shelter is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[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] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0201552-pristresky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0201552-pristresky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259499|batch #259499]]"
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