Tortola

island in British Virgin Islands
Landform island Q827604
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Tortola is an island with its capital located in Road Town . The island operates in the UTC−04:00 time zone . Road Town serves as the administrative center of the island . The time zone designation applies uniformly across Tortola .

Tortola

Summary

Tortola is an island[1]. Tortola ranks in the top 2% of island entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (663 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tortola is located in British Virgin Islands[3].
  • Tortola is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Tortola is on the body of water Caribbean Sea[5].
  • Tortola's image is recorded as Roadtown, Tortola.jpg[6].
  • Tortola's instance of is recorded as island[7].
  • Tortola's capital is recorded as Road Town[8].
  • Tortola's locator map image is recorded as BritishVirginIsland map.png[9].
  • Tortola's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85136178[10].
  • Tortola's part of is recorded as Leeward Islands[11].
  • Tortola's part of is recorded as Lesser Antilles[12].
  • Tortola's part of is recorded as Caribbean[13].
  • Tortola's Commons category is recorded as Tortola[14].
  • Tortola's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 5401566[15].
  • Tortola's located in time zone is recorded as UTC−04:00[16].
  • Tortola's highest point is recorded as Mount Sage[17].
  • Tortola's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 18.416666666667, 'lon': -64.583333333333}[18].
  • Tortola's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05bgr4[19].
  • Tortola's located in/on physical feature is recorded as Virgin Islands[20].
  • Tortola's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tortola[21].
  • Tortola's page banner is recorded as Tortola banner.jpg[22].
  • Tortola's population is recorded as {'amount': '+23908'}[23].
  • Tortola's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Tortola[24].
  • Tortola's GeoNames ID is recorded as 3577342[25].
  • Tortola's length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+19'}[26].
  • Tortola's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+244'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Tortola include Tortola Facula[28], a facula[29].

Why It Matters

Tortola ranks in the top 2% of island entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (663 views/month).[2] Tortola has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Tortola is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for Tortola include Tortola Facula[28], a facula[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [5] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . caribbeanislands.com. caribbeanislands.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . 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. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · Ikan · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in/on physical feature Virgin Islands
    Width {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+5'}
    Instance of island
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    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P4839]]: Entity["Island", "Tortola"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257262|batch #257262]]"
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