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waterway

navigable body of water, including but not limited to rivers, lakes, seas, oceans, and canals
Class type of: thoroughfare, body of water, way Q1267889

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
type of physical object by use, feature type[5]
Location
river, canal, lake, fairway[6][7][8][9]
Subclass of
thoroughfare, body of water, way
Has use
transport[10]
Described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9, Sytin Military Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12][13][14][15]
OpenStreetMap tag
type=waterway[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en navigable water en waterways en waterway en navigable waterway ar معبر مائي cs vodní cesta da vandvej de Wasserweg de Wasserstraße es aguas navegables es hidrovía es vía de agua fa راه آبی fa آب‌راه fi väylä fi vesiväylä fr réseau des voies navigables fr voie fluviale fr voie navigable he נתיב מים
🔖 Identifiers · 34
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85145756
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata sh85145756 ndl_authorities sh85022535 edition 2026-10-01 · pdl-1.0
GND ID
4064794-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Canal Grande Chiesa della Salute e Dogana dal ponte dell Accademia.jpg ↗
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294943838
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300263418
BNCF Thesaurus ID
16010
BVPB authority ID
96703
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11935887s
Dewey Decimal Classification
386
Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID
27326
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
technology/waterway
EuroVoc ID
3435
Show all 34 identifiers +22
Freebase ID
/m/017m8l
Harper's tag
waterways
J9U entity ID
987007553507605171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
waterways
KBpedia ID
Waterway
Museum-digital tag ID
8764
NALT ID
1011
NDL Authority ID
00571583
NL CR AUT ID
ph116597
OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID
Kuwait
OpenStreetMap key
waterway
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrttmtn9g5wg0
Quora topic ID
Waterways
STW Thesaurus for Economics ID
13529-5
SVKKL authority ID
h0004374-vodni-cesty
Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID
1018
Topic's main category
Category:Waterways
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10642344
Wellcome Collection concept ID
vmtpt39f
WikiKids ID
Vaarweg
YSO ID
767
Yale LUX ID
concept/44d09348-48c6-4a7a-8083-21a25ccebc2d

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🔗 Connections
Examples 16
Rhine, Lake Constance, St. Lawrence Seaway, Intracoastal Waterway, Bydgoszcz Canal, Vlie, Illinois Waterway, Lake Biwa Canal +8 more
← Category combines topics 5
Category:Waterways by country, Category:Waterways in Germany, Category:Waterways in Italy, Category:Waterways in the Netherlands, Category:Waterways in the United Kingdom
← Field of work 5
Pietro Paleocapa, Theodor Rehbock, Christiaan Brunings, Benjamin Wright, William Chapman
Location 4
river, lake, canal, fairway
Subtypes 4
ship canal, sea lane, fairway, navigation channel
Subclass of 2
body of water, thoroughfare
Topic's main category 1
Category:Waterways
← Carries thoroughfare 1
Aqueduct Veluwemeer
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Waterways
← Facet of 1
water tourism
← Industry 1
British Waterways
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Summary

waterway is a type of physical object by use[1]. waterway is a type of thoroughfare[2], body of water[3], and way[4].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . Q25373774. wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [2] ↑ . Q25373774. wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . Q24367542. wikidata.org.
  8. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. 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. 1d ago · ~2026-57915-49 · 2026-11-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed [fr] description: étendue d'eau ouverte à la circulation et au transport fluvial"
  2. 3d ago · Magnus Manske · 2026-11-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    BVPB authority ID → 96703
    "Created claim: BVPB authority ID: 96703, batch #294593"
  3. 17w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → type of physical object by use, feature type
    Has use → transport
    "Changed claim: Subclass of: thoroughfare"
  4. 17w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → type of physical object by use, feature type
    "Created claim: Instance of: type of object"
  5. 22w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0004374-vodni-cesty
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: h0004374-vodni-cesty, batch #259492"
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