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

# Ramsar site number (`ramsar_site_id`)

> **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 Wetland of International Importance designated under the Ramsar Convention, used in the Ramsar Sites Information Service (RSIS) and its site pages. It is a whole number of up to four digits; the highest value in Wikidata in November 2026 is 2580. 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{0,3}$
```

## Examples

- `476` — Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya; Wikidata example
- `714` — Lac de Grand-Lieu, France; Wikidata example
- `949` — Lake Saint Pierre, Canada; Wikidata example
- `complexe Ramsar n° 1017` (invalid example) — Text around the number, found in Wikidata; the value is the number alone

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P2525`

## Translations

- ru: Номер Рамсарского угодья: Номер водно-болотного угодья международного значения по Рамсарской конвенции в информационной службе RSIS. Целое число до четырёх цифр.

## Sources

- doc: <https://rsis.ramsar.org/>
- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar_site>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2525>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

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