Sodom and Gomorrah

Summary

Sodom and Gomorrah is a biblical place^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of biblical_place entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,563 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Sodom and Gomorrah's image is recorded as Daniel van Heil (attr) Brennende Stadt.jpg^[3].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's instance of is recorded as biblical place^[4].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's instance of is recorded as Bible story^[5].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's follows is recorded as the Lord appears to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre^[6].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's followed by is recorded as Lot and his daughters^[7].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh94007657^[8].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's part of is recorded as Genesis 18^[9].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's part of is recorded as Genesis 19^[10].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's Commons category is recorded as Sodom and Gomorrah^[11].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's has part is recorded as Sodom^[12].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's has part is recorded as Gomorrah^[13].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 31.2, 'lon': 35.5}^[14].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0jhj2^[15].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sodom and Gomorrah^[16].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's Commons gallery is recorded as Sodom and Gomorrah^[17].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0063242^[18].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia^[19].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron^[21].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron^[22].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa^[23].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus^[24].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus^[25].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[26].
• Sodom and Gomorrah's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[27].

Body

Geography

Part of include Genesis 18^[9], a chapter of the Bible^[28] and Genesis 19^[10], a chapter of the Bible^[29].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include biblical place^[4] and Bible story^[5].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Sodom and Gomorrah include it^[30], a literary work^[31], written by Marcel Proust^[32].

Why It Matters

Sodom and Gomorrah ranks in the top 2% of biblical_place entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,563 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[33] It is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[34]

Entities named for it include it^[30], a literary work^[31], written by Marcel Proust^[32].