Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/resource/Q5408678> ?p ?o }
- Q5408678 subject Q8597868.
- Q5408678 abstract "The United States has 59 protected areas known as national parks that are operated by the National Park Service, an agency of the Department of the Interior. National parks must be established by an act of the United States Congress. The first national park, Yellowstone, was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, followed by Mackinac National Park in 1875 (decommissioned in 1895), and then Rock Creek Park (later merged into National Capital Parks), Sequoia and Yosemite in 1890. The Organic Act of 1916 created the National Park Service "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." Many current National Parks had been previously protected as National Monuments by the President under the Antiquities Act before being upgraded by Congress. Seven national parks (six in Alaska) are paired with a National Preserve. While administered together, they are considered as separate units and their areas are not included in the figures below. The newest national park is Pinnacles National Park, upgraded in 2013.Criteria for the selection of National Parks include natural beauty, unique geological features, unusual ecosystems, and recreational opportunities (though these criteria are not always considered together). National Monuments, on the other hand, are frequently chosen for their historical or archaeological significance.Twenty-seven states have national parks, as do the territories of American Samoa and the United States Virgin Islands. California has the most (nine), followed by Alaska (eight), Utah (five), and Colorado (four). The largest national park is Wrangell–St. Elias in Alaska: at over 8 million acres (32,000 km2), it is larger than each of the nine smallest states. The next three largest parks are also in Alaska. The smallest park is Hot Springs, Arkansas, at less than 6 thousand acres (24 km2). The total area protected by national parks is approximately 51.9 million acres (210,000 km2), for an average of 895 thousand acres (3,620 km2) but a median of only 317 thousand acres (1,280 km2). The most-visited national park is Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee, with over ten million visitors in 2014, followed by Arizona's Grand Canyon, with over 4.7 million. In contrast, only 12,669 people visited the remote Gates of the Arctic in Alaska in the same year. Fourteen national parks are designated World Heritage Sites.A few former national parks are no longer designated as such, or have been disbanded. Other units of the National Park Service are sometimes incorrectly referred to as national parks; they are listed here.".
- Q5408678 thumbnail RNS_Yellowstone_13399u.jpg?width=300.
- Q5408678 wikiPageExternalLink index.htm.
- Q5408678 wikiPageExternalLink nationalparks.
- Q5408678 wikiPageExternalLink National.
- Q5408678 wikiPageExternalLink index.htm.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q101873.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1025202.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q103910.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q104162.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q10452427.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1053435.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q105880.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1066.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1074382.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1124512.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1124852.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q11268.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q11292.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1137401.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1137640.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1137657.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1137669.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1141462.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1143416.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1143655.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1146724.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1154336.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1163542.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1163799.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1166.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q11703.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q118388.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q118841.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1190041.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1201788.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1207.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1211.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1212.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1214.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1221.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1223.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1227.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1261.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1261587.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1264687.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1265.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q127961.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q129902.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q130018.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1315822.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1317383.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q132825.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1334313.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q13360049.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1360486.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1368788.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1370.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q137197.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1378081.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1383867.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1397.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1422831.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1427197.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q14334.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1439.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1441249.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1454.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1456.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q14560.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q146457.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q14683466.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q14711036.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1492122.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q149851.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q150129.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q150340.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1509.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q15131449.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1522.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q15225686.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q152482.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q152660.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1527.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q152820.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q15315.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1542533.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1544647.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q156684.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1573044.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q158991.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q159675.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q159762.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1603.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q160636.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1612.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1632936.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q163515.
- Q5408678 wikiPageWikiLink Q1647964.