Continent name or identifier

ID continent

DatatypeNot PIIcategorical

A continent is any of several large landmasses. Related to UN unm49 dataclass

Categories

Geographic identifiers

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

Microsoft CDM

means.location.continent

FTA

CONTINENT.TEXT_CS, CONTINENT.TEXT_DA, CONTINENT.TEXT_DE, CONTINENT.TEXT_EN, CONTINENT.TEXT_ES, CONTINENT.TEXT_FI, CONTINENT.TEXT_FR, CONTINENT.TEXT_IT, CONTINENT.TEXT_JA, CONTINENT.TEXT_NL, CONTINENT.TEXT_PL, CONTINENT.TEXT_PT, CONTINENT.TEXT_RO, CONTINENT.TEXT_RU, CONTINENT.TEXT_SV

Sherlock and Sato

continent

Wikidata

P30

Quality

63/100 · missing: regexp, second example, negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

1 rule (0 by field name, 1 by value)

encontinentbyname data, en/en_geo.yaml

Supported by tools

Doduo, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), metacrafter, Microsoft Power BI, Sato, Sherlock, Talend (Qlik Talend Data Preparation, Data Catalog and Data Inventory)

Examples

Value	Description
Eurasia	Eurasia

Patterns

Specific representations of this datatype.

ID	Name	Categories	Countries	Description
continentcode	Continent code (two letters) pattern draft	geo	global	Two-letter continent code used by GeoNames and other geographic datasets: AF (Africa), AN (Antarctica), AS (Asia), EU (Europe), NA...

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P30

Use this record

Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/continent
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