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Vital articles is a list of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. It serves as a centralized watchlist to track the status of Wikipedia's most essential articles. This is one of eleven Level 4 sub-lists of ten thousand articles and is currently under construction.

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Geography

This section contains 1200 articles.

See also: Earth science.

Total 1,200 articles.

Class #Articles
FA 22
GA 42
B 497
C 523
FFA 48
DGA 78
Start 116

Basics

This section contains 36 articles.

Physical geography

This section contains 380 articles.

Bodies of water

This section contains 189 articles.

Oceans and seas

This section contains 55 articles.

  1. Atlantic Ocean (Level 3)
    1. Baltic Sea
    2. Bay of Biscay
    3. Black Sea
    4. Caribbean Sea
    5. Gulf of Guinea
    6. Gulf of Mexico
      1. Gulf Stream
    7. Gulf of St. Lawrence
    8. Irish Sea
    9. Labrador Sea
    10. Mediterranean Sea (Level 3)
      1. Adriatic Sea
      2. Aegean Sea
      3. Ionian Sea
    11. North Sea
    12. Norwegian Sea
    13. Sargasso Sea
    14. Sea of Azov
    15. Sea of Marmara
  2. Pacific Ocean (Level 3)
    1. Gulf of Alaska
    2. Bering Sea
    3. Gulf of California
    4. Gulf of Carpentaria
    5. Coral Sea
    6. East China Sea
    7. Sea of Japan
    8. Sea of Okhotsk
    9. Philippine Sea
    10. Seto Inland Sea
    11. South China Sea
    12. Tasman Sea
    13. Gulf of Thailand
    14. Yellow Sea
  3. Indian Ocean (Level 3)
    1. Andaman Sea
    2. Arabian Sea
    3. Bay of Bengal
    4. Persian Gulf
    5. Red Sea
    6. Timor Sea
  4. Arctic Ocean (Level 3)
    1. Baffin Bay
    2. Barents Sea
    3. Beaufort Sea
    4. Greenland Sea
    5. Hudson Bay
    6. Kara Sea
    7. White Sea
  5. Southern Ocean (Level 3)
    1. Great Australian Bight
    2. Ross Sea
    3. Scotia Sea
    4. Weddell Sea

Lakes

This section contains 38 articles.

Rivers

This section contains 67 articles.

Straits

This section contains 20 articles.

  1. Gulf of Aden
  2. Bass Strait
  3. Bering Strait
  4. Bosporus
  5. Cook Strait
  6. Dardanelles
  7. Strait of Dover
  8. Drake Passage
  9. English Channel
  10. Straits of Florida
  11. Strait of Gibraltar
  12. Strait of Hormuz
  13. Kattegat
  14. Korea Strait
  15. Strait of Magellan
  16. Strait of Malacca
  17. Mozambique Channel
  18. Palk Strait
  19. Skagerrak
  20. Taiwan Strait

Canals

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Erie Canal
  2. Grand Canal (China)
  3. Kiel Canal
  4. Panama Canal
  5. St. Lawrence Seaway
  6. Suez Canal
  7. White Sea–Baltic Canal

Shipping routes

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Northeast Passage
  2. Northwest Passage

Other hydrologic features

This section contains 11 articles.

Islands

This section contains 75 articles.

Peninsulas

This section contains 17 articles.

Land relief

This section contains 53 articles.

Mountain peaks

This section contains 22 articles.

Deserts

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Arabian Desert
  2. Atacama Desert
  3. Chihuahuan Desert
  4. Gobi Desert
  5. Great Victoria Desert
  6. Kalahari Desert
  7. Karakum Desert
  8. Mojave Desert
  9. Sahara (Level 3)
  10. Taklamakan Desert

Forests

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Amazon rainforest (Level 3)
  2. Sundarbans
  3. Virgin Komi Forests

Parks and preserves

This section contains 18 articles.

Countries

This section contains 207 articles.

Africa

This section contains 54 articles.

Asia

This section contains 47 articles.

Europe

This section contains 44 articles.

North America

This section contains 23 articles.

Oceania

This section contains 14 articles.

South America

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Argentina (Level 3)
  2. Bolivia
  3. Brazil (Level 3)
  4. Colombia (Level 3)
  5. Chile
  6. Ecuador
  7. Guyana
  8. Paraguay
  9. Peru
  10. Suriname
  11. Uruguay
  12. Venezuela

Unrecognized or largely unrecognized states, and disputed regions

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Abkhazia
  2. Cook Islands
  3. Kosovo
  4. Nagorno-Karabakh
  5. Niue
  6. Northern Cyprus
  7. Palestine
  8. Somaliland
  9. South Ossetia
  10. Taiwan (Level 3)
  11. Transnistria
  12. Western Sahara

State-like entities

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Holy See

Regions and country subdivisions

This section contains 111 articles.

Cities

This section contains 448 articles.

Urban studies and planning

This section contains 17 articles.

  1. City (Level 2)
    1. Capital city
  2. City block
  3. Ghetto
  4. Metropolitan area
  5. Neighbourhood
  6. Rural area
  7. Slum
  8. Suburb
  9. Town
  10. Village
  11. Urban planning
  12. Urban design
  13. Urbanization
  14. Zoning
    1. Central business district
    2. Industrial park

Africa

This section contains 69 articles.

Asia

This section contains 176 articles.

Europe

This section contains 93 articles.

North America

This section contains 53 articles.

Oceania

This section contains 6 articles.

South America

This section contains 34 articles.


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