wetland

land area that is permanently or seasonally saturated with water
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wetland

Summary

wetland ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,345 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • wetland is a type of landscape[2].
  • wetland is a type of ecosystem[3].
  • wetland is a type of body of water[4].
  • wetland is a type of natural geographic object[5].
  • wetland is a type of habitat[6].
  • wetland's Commons category is recorded as Wetlands[7].
  • wetland's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Wetlands[8].
  • wetland's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as natural=wetland[9].
  • wetland's described by source is recorded as Green Map Icons[10].
  • wetland's topic has template is recorded as Template:Wetlands[11].
  • wetland's studied by is recorded as wetland ecology[12].
  • wetland's studied by is recorded as wetland science[13].
  • wetland's studied by is recorded as telmatology[14].
  • wetland's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001209[15].
  • wetland's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16].
  • wetland's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[17].
  • wetland's Digital Atlas of Idaho URL is recorded as https://digitalatlas.cose.isu.edu/hydr/main/images/wetland.jpg[18].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include landscape[2], ecosystem[3], body of water[4], natural geographic object[5], and habitat[6].

Influence

Things named for wetland include malaria[19], an endemic disease[20] and World Wetlands Day[21], a world day[22], founded in 1997[23].

Why It Matters

wetland ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,345 views/month).[1] wetland has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] wetland is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Entities named for wetland include malaria[19], an endemic disease[20] and World Wetlands Day[21], a world day[22], founded in 1997[23].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [19] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website http://www.ramsar.org
    Aliases
    Subclass of landscape, ecosystem, body of water +2
    Topic has template Template:Wetlands
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 16352, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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