---
id: "marine_regions_mrgid"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["environment", "geo"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/marine_regions_mrgid"
---

# Marine Regions Geographic Identifier (MRGID) (`marine_regions_mrgid`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Number of a place in the Marine Regions gazetteer of the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): seas, exclusive economic zones, reefs, seamounts, bays and other marine and coastal features. It is also used as the URI http://marineregions.org/mrgid/<number>, and VLIZ undertakes never to delete an MRGID or change its concept. A bare number: recognize it only with column context.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste) (environment), Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[1-9]\d*$
```

## Examples

- `4375` — Azores, autonomous region; Wikidata example, Marine Regions
- `18945` — Block Island Sound, a bay; Wikidata example, Marine Regions
- `35043` — Simo Banks, a reef; Wikidata example, Marine Regions
- `Niger Delta (Q13275)` (invalid example) — Text stored in Wikidata instead of an MRGID

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P3006`

## Translations

- ru: Географический идентификатор Marine Regions (MRGID): Номер объекта в газеттире Marine Regions Фламандского морского института (VLIZ): моря, исключительные экономические зоны, рифы, подводные горы и другие морские объекты.

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.marineregions.org/mrgid.php>
- doc: <https://www.marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=webservices>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3006>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/marine_regions_mrgid.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/environment/marine_regions_mrgid.yaml>