Sihlsee

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Sihlsee

Summary

Sihlsee is a reservoir[1]. Sihlsee ranks in the top 8% of reservoir entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sihlsee is located in Canton of Schwyz[3].
  • Sihlsee is located in Einsiedeln[4].
  • Sihlsee is in the country of Switzerland[5].
  • Sihlsee's image is recorded as Sihlsee Fluebrig.jpg[6].
  • Sihlsee's instance of is recorded as reservoir[7].
  • Sihlsee's instance of is recorded as area not part of a municipality of Switzerland[8].
  • Sihlsee's instance of is recorded as lake[9].
  • Sihl is named after Sihlsee[10].
  • Sihlsee's inflows is recorded as Sihl[11].
  • Sihlsee's outflows is recorded as Sihl[12].
  • Sihlsee's basin country is recorded as Switzerland[13].
  • Sihlsee's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 170230596[14].
  • Sihlsee's GND ID is recorded as 4107747-7[15].
  • Sihlsee's locator map image is recorded as Karte Sihlsee.png[16].
  • Sihlsee's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 16215438j[17].
  • Sihlsee's Commons category is recorded as Sihlsee[18].
  • Sihlsee's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 5011166[19].
  • Sihlsee's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 47.116666666667, 'lon': 8.7833333333333}[20].
  • Sihlsee's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/090ls5[21].
  • Sihlsee's Swiss municipality code is recorded as 9216[22].
  • Sihlsee's HDS ID is recorded as 008671[23].
  • Sihlsee's GeoNames ID is recorded as 2658593[24].
  • Sihlsee's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Sihlsee'}[25].
  • Sihlsee's length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+8.5'}[26].
  • Sihlsee's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+880'}[27].

Body

Geography

Sihlsee is in the country of Switzerland[5]. Located in include Canton of Schwyz[3], a canton of Switzerland[28], in Switzerland[29], founded in 1240[30] and Einsiedeln[4], a Municipality of Switzerland[31], in Switzerland[32].

Physical Characteristics

Areas include {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+11.3'}[33] and {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+10.81'}[34]. Sihlsee's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+880'}[27]. Sihlsee's length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+8.5'}[26].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include reservoir[7], area not part of a municipality of Switzerland[8], and lake[9].

History and Context

Sihl is named after Sihlsee[10].

Why It Matters

Sihlsee ranks in the top 8% of reservoir entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16 views/month).[2] Sihlsee has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] Sihlsee is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] . wikidata.org.
  7. [4] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [33] . wikidata.org.
  27. [34] . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: 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
  5. [32] . 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. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Sihlsee. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/sihlsee
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