Western culture

heritage of norms, customs, belief and political systems, and artifacts and technologies associated with Europe (both indigenous and foreign origin)
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Western culture

Summary

Western culture ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,257 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Western culture's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85026485[2].
  • Western culture's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 13318305s[3].
  • Western culture's IdRef ID is recorded as 027223329[4].
  • Western culture's subclass of is recorded as culture[5].
  • Western culture's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00570470[6].
  • Western culture's Commons category is recorded as Western culture[7].
  • Western culture's opposite of is recorded as Eastern culture[8].
  • Western culture's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0282pp[9].
  • Western culture's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph137972[10].
  • Western culture's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Western culture[11].
  • Western culture's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX4731819[12].
  • Western culture's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0234614[13].
  • Western culture's topic has template is recorded as Template:Western culture[14].
  • Western culture's BBC Things ID is recorded as 6fecb075-9277-4bb1-b115-b42ca63e8503[15].
  • Western culture's FAST ID is recorded as 863138[16].
  • Western culture's YSO ID is recorded as 18650[17].
  • Western culture's studied by is recorded as rangaku[18].
  • Western culture's Quora topic ID is recorded as Western-Culture[19].
  • Western culture's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19586235[20].
  • Western culture's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as western-civilization[21].
  • Western culture's ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID is recorded as 294944001[22].
  • Western culture's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 532726627[23].
  • Western culture's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007283799205171[24].
  • Western culture's UNBIS Thesaurus ID is recorded as 1006995[25].
  • Western culture's ERIC Thesaurus ID is recorded as Western Civilization[26].

Why It Matters

Western culture ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,257 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  14. [15] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] . ASC Leiden Thesaurus dataset of 5 June 2018. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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