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United Nations Secretary-General

chief administrative officer and head of the United Nations
Intangible position Q81066
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Summary

United Nations Secretary-General is a position[1]. It ranks in the top 0.54% of position entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,754 views/month, #19 of 3,525).[2]

Key Facts

  • Official residence: Headquarters of the United Nations[3]
  • Subclass of: diplomat[4], general secretary[5]
  • Part of: United Nations Secretariat[6]
  • Commons category: United Nations Secretary-General[7]
  • Inception: June 26, 1945[8]
  • Appointed by: United Nations General Assembly[9]
  • Official website: http://www.un.org/sg[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Secretaries-general of the United Nations[11]
  • Position holder: António Guterres[12]
  • Topic has template: Template:LN and UN Secretaries-General[13]
  • Native label: United Nations Secretary-General[14]
  • Short name: UNSG[15]
  • Term length of position: 5 years[16]
  • Substitute/deputy/replacement of office/officeholder: Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations[17]
  • Has list: list of United Nations Secretary-Generals[18]
  • Organization directed by the office or position: United Nations[19], United Nations Secretariat[20]
  • Female form of label: генеральна секретарка ООН[21], Secretària General de les Nacions Unides[22], Sekretera Giştî ya Neteweyên Yekbûyî[23]
  • Male form of label: Sekreterê Giştî yê Neteweyên Yekbûyî[24]
  • Base salary: 227,253 US dollars[25]
  • Nominated by: United Nations Security Council[26]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Human rights[27], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[28]

Why It Matters

United Nations Secretary-General has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 107 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Related Entities

António Guterres Ban Ki-moon Boutros Boutros-Ghali Dag Hammarskjöld Gladwyn Jebb Javier Pérez de Cuéllar Kofi Annan Kurt Waldheim Trygve Lie United Nations U Thant

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . un.org. Retrieved . un.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  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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  1. 10w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14717 → Q81066
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  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2IYIFi
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  3. 15w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Substitute/deputy/replacement of office/officeholder → Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
    Website → —
    Subclass of → diplomat, general secretary
    Aliases → —
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: jungtiniu-tautu-generalinis-sekretorius"
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