tropics

Summary

tropics is a region^[1]. tropics ranks in the top 5% of region entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (994 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• tropics's instance of is recorded as region^[3].
• tropics is a type of climate zone^[4].
• tropics's Commons category is recorded as Tropics^[5].
• tropics's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tropics^[6].
• tropics's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[7].
• tropics's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 2^[8].
• tropics's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[9].
• tropics's different from is recorded as tropical climate^[10].
• tropics's different from is recorded as Q3743763^[11].
• tropics's has boundary is recorded as tropic^[12].
• tropics's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change^[13].

Body

Designation and Status

tropics's instance of is recorded as region^[3].

Cultural Significance

Things named for tropics include Lusotropicalism^[14], a political ideology^[15], in Portugal^[16]; tropical geometry^[17], a branch of mathematics^[18]; and tropical night^[19].

Why It Matters

tropics ranks in the top 5% of region entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (994 views/month).^[2] tropics has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[20] tropics is known by 90 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[21]

Entities named for tropics include Lusotropicalism^[14], a political ideology^[15], in Portugal^[16]; tropical geometry^[17], a branch of mathematics^[18]; and tropical night^[19].