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The Jungle Book

1894 short story collection by Rudyard Kipling
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The Jungle Book
Illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

The Jungle Book is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 0.77% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,732 views/month, #218 of 28,446).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Rudyard Kipling[3]
  • Illustrator: John Lockwood Kipling[4]
  • Genre: didactic literature[5]
  • Followed by: The Second Jungle Book[6]
  • Place of publication: United Kingdom[7]
  • Commons category: The Jungle Book[8]
  • Language of work or name: English[9]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[10]
  • Has part(s): Mowgli's Brothers[11], Kaa's Hunting[12], Tiger! Tiger![13], Letting in the Jungle[14], Red Dog[15], Rikki-Tikki-Tavi[16], Toomai of the Elephants[17], Her Majesty's Servants[18]
  • Publication date: 1894[19]
  • Characters: Mowgli[20], Bagheera[21], Baloo[22], Kaa[23], Shere Khan[24], Tabaqui[25], Bandar-log[26], Hathi[27], Raksha[28], Akela[29]
  • Has edition or translation: Le Livre de la jungle[30], Junglebogen[31], Q117279996[32], Q117281052[33], Q121843147[34], Kniga Dzhungley[35], Księga Dżungli[36], The Jungle Book (Century edition)[37], The Jungle Book[38], Q141507445[39]
  • Narrative location: India[40], Lost city[41]
  • Topic's main category: Category:The Jungle Book[42]
  • Main subject: orphan[43], feral child[44]
  • Work available at URL: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudyard-kipling/the-jungle-book[45]
  • Takes place in fictional universe: Jungle Book universe[46]
  • Title: The Jungle Book[47]
  • List of characters: list of The Jungle Book characters[48]
  • Different from: The Jungle Book[49]
  • Derivative work: The Jungle Book 2[50], The Jungle Book[51], Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book[52], Adventures of Mowgli[53], Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle[54], The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo[55], The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story[56], Jungle Book[57], Jungleboek[58], Mauglí[59]

Why It Matters

The Jungle Book has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[60] It is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[61]

Related Entities

India literary work Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle public domain Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . en.wikipedia.org. en.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  39. [41] ↑ . junglebook.fandom.com. junglebook.fandom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  45. [47] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [60] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [61] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Սահակ · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'bg', 'bh', 'bn', 'br', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'e
    Work available at url → https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudyard-kipling/the-jungle
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Work available at url: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudyard-kipling/the-jungle-book"
  2. 29d ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lex id → Junglebogen
    Derivative work → The Jungle Book 2, The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book +9
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Derivative work: The Jungle Book, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789995362906"
  3. 4w ago · Johshh · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Form of creative work → short story collection, narration
    Characters → Mowgli, Bagheera, Baloo +7
    List of characters → list of The Jungle Book characters
    Language of work or name → English
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has edition or translation: Q141507445"
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