"Where do I begin?"

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and contains articles which explain over a million different things about the world, the people and things on it, and beyond. There are 2 ways to look things up in Wikipedia: by searching or by browsing...

If you know the name of the topic you are looking for, simply type it into Wikipedia's search box and press Go.

If you would like to look around the encyclopedia to see what's on it, here are some ways to explore Wikipedia:

There are also several other "Tables of Contents" type pages on Wikipedia. They are:

Wikipedia also has an alphabetical index of all of its articles.

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The location of the search box and other links described on this page only apply to the default skin.