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United Kingdom Hydrographic Office

UK government agency concerned with providing hydrographic and marine geospatial data
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United Kingdom Hydrographic Office

Summary

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office is a government agency[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of government_agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (59 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office was a member of British and Irish Committee on Map Information and Cataloguing Systems[3].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office was a member of Marine Environmental Data and Information Network[4].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office is in the country of United Kingdom[5].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's instance of is recorded as government agency[6].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's headquarters location is recorded as Taunton[7].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's ISNI is recorded as 0000000123428550[8].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 157729748[9].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's GND ID is recorded as 1004389-5[10].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n96000660[11].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 153823339[12].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's IdRef ID is recorded as 06727496X[13].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's NACSIS-CAT author ID is recorded as DA03155499[14].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's postal code is recorded as TA1 2DN[15].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's Commons category is recorded as United Kingdom Hydrographic Office[16].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's Libraries Australia ID is recorded as 35397776[17].
  • +1795-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of United Kingdom Hydrographic Office[18].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 51.023496, 'lon': -3.078386}[19].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025rwhx[20].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's parent organization or unit is recorded as Ministry of Defence[21].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's official website is recorded as https://gov.uk/ukho[22].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's National Library of Israel ID is recorded as 004145054[23].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's applies to jurisdiction is recorded as United Kingdom[24].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's BIBSYS ID is recorded as 98012270[25].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+1000'}[26].
  • United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's NUKAT ID is recorded as n2017232525[27].

Body

Founding

+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of United Kingdom Hydrographic Office[18].

Identity

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'UKHO'}[28].

Operations

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's headquarters location is recorded as Taunton[7]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as Ministry of Defence[21].

Why It Matters

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office ranks in the top 5% of government_agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (59 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [14] ↑ . CiNii Research. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . The merger of the Photogrammetric Society and the Remote Sensing Society. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . api.postcodes.io. Retrieved . api.postcodes.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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