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.
Articles in the Vital list have their assessments labelled as:
- Featured articles
- Former featured articles
- A-class articles
- Good articles
- Delisted good articles
- Failed good article nominees
- B-class articles
- C-class articles
- Start-class articles
- Stub-class articles
- List-class articles
- Unassessed articles
The progress bar is auto-updated via category count, and the symbols and article counts are updated daily by User:cewbot. Please read the FAQ before modifying the article list.
This list is tailored to the English-language Wikipedia. There is also a list of ten thousand articles considered vital to Wikipedias of all languages.
For more information on this list and the process for adding articles, please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.
Total 1,203 articles.
Class | #Articles |
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FA | 22 |
GA | 46 |
FFA | 48 |
DGA | 79 |
Geography
This section contains 1203 articles.
- See also: Earth science.
Basics
This section contains 38 articles.
Basics: GeneralThis section contains 5 articles. ContinentsThis section contains 9 articles. |
CartographyThis section contains 15 articles. |
EarthThis section contains 9 articles.
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Physical geography
This section contains 380 articles.
Bodies of water
This section contains 189 articles.
Oceans and seas
This section contains 55 articles.
Lakes
This section contains 38 articles.
AfricaThis section contains 10 articles. EuropeThis section contains 3 articles. |
North AmericaThis section contains 10 articles. South AmericaThis section contains 2 articles. |
AsiaThis section contains 11 articles.
AntarcticaThis section contains 1 article. OceaniaThis section contains 1 article.
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Rivers
This section contains 67 articles.
AsiaThis section contains 25 articles. |
North AmericaThis section contains 9 articles.
South AmericaThis section contains 10 articles. |
AfricaThis section contains 10 articles. EuropeThis section contains 12 articles. OceaniaThis section contains 1 article.
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Straits
This section contains 20 articles.
Canals
This section contains 7 articles.
Shipping routes
This section contains 2 articles.
Other hydrologic features
This section contains 11 articles.
WaterfallsThis section contains 4 articles. |
SeabedThis section contains 3 articles. WetlandsThis section contains 1 article. |
GlaciersThis section contains 2 articles. AquifersThis section contains 1 article.
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Islands
This section contains 75 articles.
AfricaThis section contains 5 articles. North AmericaThis section contains 15 articles. CaribbeanThis section contains 8 articles. South AmericaThis section contains 5 articles. |
AsiaThis section contains 24 articles.
AntarcticaThis section contains 1 article. |
EuropeThis section contains 15 articles.
OceaniaThis section contains 10 articles.
New ZealandThis section contains 2 articles.
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Peninsulas
This section contains 17 articles.
AfricaThis section contains 2 articles. North AmericaThis section contains 2 articles. South AmericaThis section contains 1 article. |
AsiaThis section contains 7 articles. |
EuropeThis section contains 4 articles. AntarcticaThis section contains 1 article.
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Land relief
This section contains 53 articles.
Land relief: GeneralThis section contains 2 articles. North AmericaThis section contains 7 articles.
South AmericaThis section contains 7 articles. AntarcticaThis section contains 1 article. |
AsiaThis section contains 17 articles. Southern AsiaThis section contains 5 articles. Western AsiaThis section contains 5 articles. Eastern AsiaThis section contains 4 articles. Central and Northern AsiaThis section contains 3 articles. |
EuropeThis section contains 8 articles.
AfricaThis section contains 7 articles.
OceaniaThis section contains 4 articles.
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Mountain peaks
This section contains 22 articles.
AfricaThis section contains 2 articles. AsiaThis section contains 7 articles. |
North AmericaThis section contains 3 articles. South AmericaThis section contains 1 article. OceaniaThis section contains 3 articles. |
EuropeThis section contains 5 articles. AntarcticaThis section contains 1 article.
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Deserts
This section contains 10 articles.
Forests
This section contains 3 articles.
Parks and preserves
This section contains 18 articles.
Parks and preserves: GeneralThis section contains 3 articles. AfricaThis section contains 4 articles.
AsiaThis section contains 1 article. |
North AmericaThis section contains 6 articles.
South AmericaThis section contains 1 article. |
EuropeThis section contains 1 article. OceaniaThis section contains 2 articles.
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Countries
This section contains 207 articles.
Africa
This section contains 54 articles.
North AfricaThis section contains 6 articles. Southern AfricaThis section contains 5 articles. Central AfricaThis section contains 9 articles. |
East AfricaThis section contains 18 articles. |
West AfricaThis section contains 16 articles. |
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Asia
This section contains 47 articles.
East AsiaThis section contains 5 articles. Southeast AsiaThis section contains 11 articles. |
Central AsiaThis section contains 5 articles. South AsiaThis section contains 8 articles. |
West AsiaThis section contains 18 articles. |
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Europe
This section contains 44 articles.
Northern EuropeThis section contains 10 articles. Western EuropeThis section contains 9 articles. |
Southern EuropeThis section contains 15 articles. |
Eastern EuropeThis section contains 10 articles. |
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North America
This section contains 23 articles.
Northern AmericaThis section contains 3 articles. Central AmericaThis section contains 7 articles. |
CaribbeanThis section contains 13 articles.
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Oceania
This section contains 14 articles.
Australia and New ZealandThis section contains 2 articles. PolynesiaThis section contains 3 articles. |
MicronesiaThis section contains 5 articles. |
MelanesiaThis section contains 4 articles.
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South America
This section contains 12 articles.
Unrecognized or largely unrecognized states, and disputed regions
This section contains 12 articles.
State-like entities
This section contains 1 article.
Regions and country subdivisions
This section contains 109 articles.
Regions and country subdivisions: GeneralThis section contains 4 articles. AfricaThis section contains 7 articles. AmericasThis section contains 23 articles. CanadaThis section contains 3 articles. United StatesThis section contains 13 articles.
OceaniaThis section contains 4 articles. |
AsiaThis section contains 42 articles. ChinaThis section contains 16 articles.
IndiaThis section contains 9 articles.
IndonesiaThis section contains 2 articles. Middle EastThis section contains 4 articles. PakistanThis section contains 2 articles. |
EuropeThis section contains 29 articles. Europe: GeneralThis section contains 1 article. BelgiumThis section contains 2 articles. Eastern EuropeThis section contains 2 articles. FranceThis section contains 2 articles. GermanyThis section contains 1 article. ItalyThis section contains 1 article. Northern EuropeThis section contains 1 article. RomaniaThis section contains 3 articles. RussiaThis section contains 7 articles. SpainThis section contains 4 articles. United KingdomThis section contains 5 articles.
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Cities
This section contains 451 articles.
Urban studies and planning
This section contains 17 articles.
Africa
This section contains 71 articles.
West AfricaThis section contains 24 articles. BeninThis section contains 1 article. Burkina FasoThis section contains 1 article. CameroonThis section contains 2 articles. ChadThis section contains 1 article. GhanaThis section contains 2 articles. GuineaThis section contains 1 article. Ivory CoastThis section contains 1 article. LiberiaThis section contains 1 article. MaliThis section contains 1 article. MauritaniaThis section contains 1 article. NigerThis section contains 1 article. NigeriaThis section contains 9 articles. SenegalThis section contains 1 article. Sierra LeoneThis section contains 1 article. |
East AfricaThis section contains 16 articles. EritreaThis section contains 1 article. EthiopiaThis section contains 3 articles. KenyaThis section contains 2 articles. MadagascarThis section contains 1 article. MalawiThis section contains 1 article. MozambiqueThis section contains 2 articles. RwandaThis section contains 1 article. SomaliaThis section contains 1 article. TanzaniaThis section contains 1 article. UgandaThis section contains 1 article. ZambiaThis section contains 1 article. ZimbabweThis section contains 1 article. Central AfricaThis section contains 6 articles. AngolaThis section contains 1 article. Central African RepublicThis section contains 1 article. DR CongoThis section contains 3 articles. Republic of the CongoThis section contains 1 article. |
North AfricaThis section contains 18 articles. AlgeriaThis section contains 3 articles. EgyptThis section contains 6 articles. LibyaThis section contains 2 articles. MoroccoThis section contains 4 articles. SudanThis section contains 2 articles. TunisiaThis section contains 1 article. Southern AfricaThis section contains 7 articles. BotswanaThis section contains 1 article. NamibiaThis section contains 1 article. South AfricaThis section contains 5 articles.
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Asia
This section contains 178 articles.
Central AsiaThis section contains 4 articles. KazakhstanThis section contains 2 articles. UzbekistanThis section contains 2 articles. Eastern AsiaThis section contains 56 articles. ChinaThis section contains 0 article. North ChinaThis section contains 4 articles. Northeast ChinaThis section contains 4 articles. East ChinaThis section contains 10 articles. South Central ChinaThis section contains 10 articles. Southwest ChinaThis section contains 4 articles. Northwest ChinaThis section contains 2 articles. Special administrative regionsThis section contains 2 articles. JapanThis section contains 10 articles. MongoliaThis section contains 1 article. North KoreaThis section contains 1 article. South KoreaThis section contains 5 articles. TaiwanThis section contains 3 articles. |
South AsiaThis section contains 51 articles. AfghanistanThis section contains 3 articles. BangladeshThis section contains 3 articles. IndiaThis section contains 0 article. North IndiaThis section contains 12 articles.
West IndiaThis section contains 6 articles. South IndiaThis section contains 8 articles. East IndiaThis section contains 4 articles. Central IndiaThis section contains 3 articles. Northeast IndiaThis section contains 1 article. NepalThis section contains 1 article. PakistanThis section contains 9 articles. Sri LankaThis section contains 1 article. Southeast AsiaThis section contains 26 articles. CambodiaThis section contains 1 article. IndonesiaThis section contains 10 articles. |
LaosThis section contains 1 article. MalaysiaThis section contains 2 articles. MyanmarThis section contains 2 articles. PhilippinesThis section contains 4 articles. ThailandThis section contains 2 articles. VietnamThis section contains 4 articles. Western AsiaThis section contains 41 articles. ArmeniaThis section contains 1 article. AzerbaijanThis section contains 1 article. GeorgiaThis section contains 1 article. IranThis section contains 8 articles. IraqThis section contains 4 articles. IsraelThis section contains 2 articles. JordanThis section contains 1 article. KuwaitThis section contains 1 article. LebanonThis section contains 2 articles. OmanThis section contains 1 article. PalestineThis section contains 1 article. QatarThis section contains 1 article. Saudi ArabiaThis section contains 4 articles. SyriaThis section contains 2 articles. TurkeyThis section contains 7 articles.
United Arab EmiratesThis section contains 2 articles. YemenThis section contains 2 articles.
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Europe
This section contains 93 articles.
Northern EuropeThis section contains 17 articles. DenmarkThis section contains 1 article. EstoniaThis section contains 1 article. FinlandThis section contains 1 article. IrelandThis section contains 1 article. LatviaThis section contains 1 article. LithuaniaThis section contains 1 article. NorwayThis section contains 1 article. SwedenThis section contains 1 article. United KingdomThis section contains 9 articles. Southern EuropeThis section contains 20 articles. Bosnia and HerzegovinaThis section contains 1 article. CroatiaThis section contains 1 article. GreeceThis section contains 1 article. ItalyThis section contains 9 articles. PortugalThis section contains 2 articles. SerbiaThis section contains 1 article. SpainThis section contains 5 articles. |
Eastern EuropeThis section contains 31 articles. BelarusThis section contains 1 article. BulgariaThis section contains 1 article. Czech RepublicThis section contains 1 article. HungaryThis section contains 1 article. PolandThis section contains 6 articles. RomaniaThis section contains 1 article. RussiaThis section contains 13 articles.
SlovakiaThis section contains 1 article. UkraineThis section contains 6 articles. |
Western EuropeThis section contains 25 articles. AustriaThis section contains 1 article. BelgiumThis section contains 2 articles. FranceThis section contains 8 articles. GermanyThis section contains 9 articles. NetherlandsThis section contains 3 articles. SwitzerlandThis section contains 2 articles. |
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North America
This section contains 52 articles.
United StatesThis section contains 27 articles. NortheastThis section contains 4 articles. MidwestThis section contains 5 articles. SouthThis section contains 11 articles.
WestThis section contains 7 articles. |
CanadaThis section contains 5 articles. MexicoThis section contains 9 articles. CaribbeanThis section contains 5 articles. CubaThis section contains 1 article. Dominican RepublicThis section contains 1 article. HaitiThis section contains 1 article. JamaicaThis section contains 1 article. Puerto RicoThis section contains 1 article. |
Central AmericaThis section contains 6 articles. Costa RicaThis section contains 1 article. El SalvadorThis section contains 1 article. GuatemalaThis section contains 1 article. HondurasThis section contains 1 article. NicaraguaThis section contains 1 article. PanamaThis section contains 1 article.
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Oceania
This section contains 6 articles.
AustraliaThis section contains 5 articles. |
New ZealandThis section contains 1 article.
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South America
This section contains 34 articles.
BrazilThis section contains 12 articles.
BoliviaThis section contains 2 articles. |
ArgentinaThis section contains 3 articles. ChileThis section contains 2 articles. EcuadorThis section contains 2 articles. PeruThis section contains 3 articles. |
ColombiaThis section contains 5 articles. VenezuelaThis section contains 3 articles. ParaguayThis section contains 1 article. UruguayThis section contains 1 article.
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