typhoon

mature tropical cyclone that forms in the Western North Pacific Ocean, with winds of at least 118 km/h (64 kts, 32.7 m/s)
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typhoon

Summary

typhoon ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23,808 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • typhoon is a type of Northwest Pacific tropical cyclone[2].
  • typhoon's Commons category is recorded as Pacific typhoons[3].
  • typhoon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Typhoons[4].
  • typhoon's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[5].
  • typhoon's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6].
  • typhoon's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[7].
  • typhoon's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8].
  • typhoon's different from is recorded as typhoon[9].
  • typhoon's different from is recorded as Typhoon[10].
  • typhoon's different from is recorded as Q140043890[11].
  • typhoon's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q22828814[12].
  • typhoon's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Information integrity on extreme weather events[13].
  • typhoon's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics[14].
  • typhoon's P14541 is recorded as 1xPeE4[15].

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Definition and Type

typhoon is a type of Northwest Pacific tropical cyclone[2].

Why It Matters

typhoon ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23,808 views/month).[1] typhoon has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] typhoon is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15d ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → typhoons
    Nhk one news topic id → E0000000202
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/54972|batch #54972]]"
  2. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1xPeE4
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · EPorto (WMB) · 2026-06-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Information integrity on extreme weather events
    Part of → —
    Different from → typhoon, Typhoon, Q140043890
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/34829|batch #34829]]"
  4. 17w ago · EPorto (WMB) · 2026-06-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Part of the series → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P361]]: [[Q63100804]]"
  5. 17w ago · EPorto (WMB) · 2026-06-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of the series → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/34783|batch #34783]]"
  6. 17w ago · EPorto (WMB) · 2026-06-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Typhoons
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||pt-br, pt */ Adding labels and descriptions to Extreme Weather events and subclasses ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/796090199e7|details]])"
  7. 17w ago · Yukkuri Shambis · 2026-06-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Typhoons
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P910]]: [[Q8957195]]"
  8. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of series → —
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Fluid dynamics
    Permanent duplicated item → Q22828814
    Subclass of → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007558413105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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