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This portal is tailored to the English-language Wikipedia. There is also a list of one thousand articles considered vital to Wikipedias of all languages, as well as Vital Article lists tailored to different Wikipedia languages accessible via the languages sidebar.
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Featured article
A
galaxy is a system of
stars ,
stellar remnants ,
interstellar gas ,
dust , and
dark matter bound together by
gravity . The word is derived from the
Greek galaxias (
γαλαξίας ), literally 'milky', a reference to the
Milky Way galaxy that contains the
Solar System . Galaxies, averaging an estimated 100 million stars, range in size from
dwarfs with less than a thousand stars, to the
largest galaxies known –
supergiants with one hundred
trillion stars, each orbiting its galaxy's
center of mass . Most of the mass in a typical galaxy is in the form of
dark matter , with only a few percent of that mass visible in the form of stars and nebulae.
Supermassive black holes are a common feature at the centres of galaxies. (
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Image 2 YouTube is an American
online video sharing platform owned by
Google . Accessible worldwide, YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by
Steve Chen ,
Chad Hurley , and
Jawed Karim , three former employees of
PayPal . Headquartered in
San Bruno, California , United States, it is the
second most visited website in the world, after
Google Search . As of January 2024, YouTube has more than 2.7 billion
monthly users , who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of
content per minute, and as of 2021, there were approximately 14 billion videos in total. (
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Image 3 The
United States of America (
USA or
U.S.A. ), commonly known as the
United States (
US or
U.S. ) or
America , is a country primarily located in
North America . It is
a federation of 50
states , which also includes
its federal capital district of
Washington, D.C. , and 326
Indian reservations . The 48
contiguous states border
Canada to the north and
Mexico to the south. The
State of Alaska is non-contiguous and lies to the northwest, while the
State of Hawaii is an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Outside the union of states, the U.S. also asserts sovereignty over five major
unincorporated island territories and various
uninhabited islands . The country has the world's
third-largest land area , second-largest
exclusive economic zone , and
third-largest population , exceeding 334 million. (
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Image 4 Google LLC (
GOO -ghəl) is an
American multinational corporation and
technology company focusing on
online advertising ,
search engine technology,
cloud computing ,
computer software ,
quantum computing ,
e-commerce ,
consumer electronics , and
artificial intelligence (AI). It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" and is one of the world's
most valuable brands due to its
market dominance , data collection, and technological advantages in the field of AI. Google's parent company,
Alphabet Inc. , is one of the
five Big Tech companies , alongside
Amazon ,
Apple ,
Meta , and
Microsoft . (
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Image 5 India , officially the
Republic of India (
ISO :
Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), is a country in
South Asia . It is the
seventh-largest country by area ; the
most populous country as of June 2023; and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the
Indian Ocean on the south, the
Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the
Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with
Pakistan to the west;
China ,
Nepal , and
Bhutan to the north; and
Bangladesh and
Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of
Sri Lanka and the
Maldives ; its
Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with
Thailand , Myanmar, and
Indonesia . (
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Image 7 World War II or the
Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a
global conflict between two
alliances : the
Allies and the
Axis powers .
Nearly all of the world's countries —including all the
great powers —participated, with many having invested all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of
total war , blurring the distinction between military and civilian resources.
Tanks and
aircraft played major roles , with the latter enabling the
strategic bombing of population centres and delivery of the
only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was the
deadliest conflict in history, resulting in
70 to 85 million fatalities , more than half of which were civilians. Millions died in
genocides , including
the Holocaust of European Jews, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. Following the Allied powers' victory,
Germany ,
Austria ,
Japan , and
Korea were occupied, and
war crimes tribunals were conducted
against German and
Japanese leaders . (
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Image 8 The
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the
United Kingdom (
UK ) or
Britain , is a country in
Northwestern Europe , off the coast of the
continental mainland . It comprises
England ,
Scotland ,
Wales , and
Northern Ireland . The UK includes the island of
Great Britain , the north-eastern part of the island of
Ireland , and most of the
smaller islands within the
British Isles . Northern Ireland shares
a land border with the
Republic of Ireland ; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the
Atlantic Ocean , the
North Sea , the
English Channel , the
Celtic Sea , and the
Irish Sea . The total area of the United Kingdom is 94,354 square miles (244,376 km
2 ), with an estimated population of nearly 67.6 million people in 2022. (
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