Level 4 Sublists

Vital articles is a list of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. It serves as a centralized watchlist to track the status of Wikipedia's most essential articles. This is one of eleven Level 4 sub-lists of ten thousand articles and is currently under construction.

Articles in the Vital list have their assessments labelled as:

  • Featured articles
  • Former featured articles
  • A-class articles
  • Good articles
  • Delisted good articles
  • Failed good article nominees
  • B-class articles
  • C-class articles
  • Start-class articles
  • Stub-class articles
  • List-class articles
  • Unassessed articles

The progress bar is auto-updated via category count, and the symbols and article counts are updated daily by User:cewbot. Please read the FAQ before modifying the article list.

This list is tailored to the English-language Wikipedia. There is also a list of ten thousand articles considered vital to Wikipedias of all languages.

For more information on this list and the process for adding articles, please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.

Geography

This section contains 1200 articles.

See also: Earth science.

Total 1,200 articles.

Class #Articles
FA 22
GA 42
B 496
C 524
FFA 48
DGA 77
FFAC 2
FGAN 141
Start 116
PR 192
ITN 28
OTD 2

Basics

This section contains 36 articles.

Physical geography

This section contains 380 articles.

Bodies of water

This section contains 189 articles.

Oceans and seas

This section contains 55 articles.

Lakes

This section contains 38 articles.

Rivers

This section contains 67 articles.

Straits

This section contains 20 articles.

Canals

This section contains 7 articles.

Shipping routes

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Northeast Passage
  2. Northwest Passage

Other hydrologic features

This section contains 11 articles.

Islands

This section contains 75 articles.

Peninsulas

This section contains 17 articles.

Land relief

This section contains 53 articles.

Mountain peaks

This section contains 22 articles.

Deserts

This section contains 10 articles.

Forests

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Amazon rainforest (Level 3)
  2. Sundarbans
  3. Virgin Komi Forests

Parks and preserves

This section contains 18 articles.

Countries

This section contains 207 articles.

Africa

This section contains 54 articles.

Asia

This section contains 47 articles.

Europe

This section contains 44 articles.

North America

This section contains 23 articles.

Oceania

This section contains 14 articles.

South America

This section contains 12 articles.

Unrecognized or largely unrecognized states, and disputed regions

This section contains 12 articles.

State-like entities

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Holy See

Regions and country subdivisions

This section contains 111 articles.

Cities

This section contains 448 articles.

Urban studies and planning

This section contains 17 articles.

Africa

This section contains 69 articles.

Asia

This section contains 176 articles.

Europe

This section contains 93 articles.

North America

This section contains 53 articles.

Oceania

This section contains 6 articles.

South America

This section contains 34 articles.