List of reference tables
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You usually find a collection of reference tables in the back of almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work). As these tables appear in Wikipedia, please add them to this index.
What we have in mind is listings or tabular information for quick reference, not narrative articles.
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- By type:
- List of glossaries (glossaries are also included in this list)
- Lists of articles by category (also included here)
- List of themed timelines (also included in this list)
- List of trivia lists (also included here)
- List of countries (general lists by country not included here)
- Lists of people (not included here)
Reference
- List of library and information science topics
- List of almanacs
- List of digital library projects
- List of encyclopedias
- List of How-tos
- List of magazines
- List of newspapers
- List of important news web sites
- List of topics (Scientific Method)
- List of unsolved problems
Standards
- List of standards topics (these could easily be cross-referenced under other relevant categories as well)
- International Standards
- ISO 639 language names
- ISO 3166 country codes
- IOC country codes
- Time zones
- List of country calling codes
- List of Internet TLDs
- List of plastic recycling codes
- United States Standards
- Federal Standard 1037C (Glossary of telecommunication terms)
- FIPS two-letter country codes
- US postal abbreviations
Size, measurement and conversions
- List of size, measurement and conversions topics (these could easily be cross-referenced under other relevant categories as well)
- SI base units
- SI derived units
- SI prefix
- Unit conversions
- Orders of magnitude
- Specific measures
Mathematics
- List of mathematics reference tables
- List of mathematical topics
- List of statistical topics
- Classification of finite simple groups
- List of mathematical functions
- List of mathematical proofs
- List of matrices
- List of numbers
- List of relativistic equations
- List of small groups
- Mathematical constants
- Table of bases
- Table of divisors
- Table of integrals
- Table of mathematical symbols
- Table of prime factors
- Taylor series
- Timeline of mathematics
- Trigonometric identities
- Truth table
Physical Science and Categorization
Physics
- List of physics topics
- List of equations in classical mechanics
- List of laws in science
- List of letters used in mathematics and science
- List of satellites which have provided data on the magnetosphere
- Physical constant
- List of Artificial Radiation Belts
- Wiktionary: List of colors
- List of particles
Chemistry
- List of chemistry topics
- Periodic table of the elements
- Table of standard electrode potentials
- Isotope table (divided)
- Isotope table (complete)
- Functional groups
- List of compounds
- List of biochemistry topics
- List of biomolecules
Electronics
Astronomy
- List of astronomical topics
- Asteroids
- Constellation listing
- List of meteor showers
- List of stars
- List of telescope types
- List of largest optical refracting telescopes
- List of largest optical reflecting telescopes
- Moons of the solar system
- Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys
- Timeline of cosmic microwave background astronomy
- Timeline of cosmology
- Timeline of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure
- Timeline of planetary exploration
- Timeline of solar astronomy
- Timeline of solar system astronomy
- Timeline of stellar astronomy
- Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology
- Timeline of the Big Bang
- Timeline of the interstellar medium and intergalactic medium
- Timeline of the Universe
- Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae
- Zodiac
Space exploration
Geology
- List of geological topics
- Geologic timescale
- List of coastal topics
- List of birthstones
- List of earthquakes
- List of fluvial topics
- List of landforms
- List of minerals
- List of oil fields
- List of rocks
- Timeline of geology
- List of volcanoes
Geography and Places
List of famous sites (and notable sites)
- List of abbeys and priories: Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
- List of botanical gardens
- List of buildings
- List of castles
- List of famous cemeteries
- List of dams
- List of gardens
- List of historic houses
- List of hospitals
- List of museums
- List of museum ships
- List of popular tourist regions
- List of public outdoor nudist areas
- List of skyscrapers
- List of spa towns
- List of United States military bases
- List of walls
- List of waterfalls
- List of World Heritage Sites
- List of zoos
Terrestrial landscape features/regions
(generally larger than "sites" above)- List of deserts
- List of islands
- List of lakes
- List of mountains
- List of mountain passes
- List of mountain ranges
- List of volcanoes
- List of climbing areas
- List of oceanic ridges
- List of oceanic trenches
- List of rivers
- List of straits
Extraterrestrial features/regions
- List of mountains on Venus
- List of mountains on Mars
- List of mountains on Io
- List of craters on Mars
- List of craters on Europa
- List of craters on Ganymede
- List of craters on Callisto
- List of features on Phobos and Deimos
- List of Lunar valleys
Cities
- List of city listings by country
- Capitals
- List of metropolitan areas by population
- List of planned cities
- List of city nicknames
- List of towns: UK, Republic of Ireland
- List of places in London, England
- List of Brooklyn, New York neighborhoods
List of countries and other entities
- List of countries
- Dependent areas
- Pseudo States
- List of Reichstag participants (1792)
- List of German Confederation member states
- List of state mottos
Toponymy lists (place names)
- List of generic forms in British place names
- List of British place names and their meanings
- List of Roman place names in Britain
- Latin names of European cities
- Latin names of European rivers
- Historical African place names
- List of city nicknames
- List of country name etymologies
- List of political entities named after people
- List of river name etymologies
- List of subnational name etymologies
- List of toponyms (with names derived from a place or region)
- List of interesting or unusual place names
- List of adjectival forms of place names
- Wikipedia:Multiple-place names
Biology
- List of biological topics
- Amino acids
- Flower album
- Genetic code
- List of Acer species (maple)
- List of Arecaceae Genera (palm tree family)
- List of common species names
- List of gene families
- List of genera in Caesalpinioideae
- List of genera in Faboideae
- List of genera in Mimosoideae
- List of flowers
- List of forests
- List of fruit
- List of herbs
- List of Quercus species (oak)
- List of Smilax species
- List of vegetables
- Timeline of evolution
Animals/Zoology
- List of ant genera (alphabetical)
- List of birds
- List of cat breeds
- List of dog breeds
- List of horse breeds
- List of historical animals (incl. cats, dogs, horses)
Agriculture and Food
Foods and drinks
- List of food and drink topics
- List of commercial brands of beer
- List of recipes
- List of cocktails
- List of diets
- List of French cheeses
- List of food additives
- List of wine producing regions
- List of restaurant chains
- List of Fast-food restaurant chains
- List of Vegan recipes
Ecology
Architecture and Civil engineering
- List of architecture topics
- List of buildings
- List of civil engineering topics
- List of notable Irish buildings
- List of lighthouses and lightvessels: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, USA
- List of windmills: UK
- List of watermills: UK
- List of World's Tallest Structures
- See also: Transportation, Geography and Places
Computing, Internet, and Technology
- List of computing topics
- List of Internet topics
- List of information technology management topics
- List of technologies
- Character sets and encodings
- List of algorithms
- List of basic computer science topics
- List of calculators
- List of computer bugs
- List of computing and IT abbreviations
- List of data structures
- List of graphics file formats
- List of IBM products
- List of internet slang
- List of Intel microprocessors
- List of machines running CP/M
- List of newsgroups
- List of operating systems
- Lists of programming languages
- List of Univac products
- List of Unices
- List of Unix commands
- Timeline of computing
- Timeline of microscope technology
- Timeline of materials technology
- List of digital library projects
Transportation
- List of transportation topics
- List of aircraft
- List of airports: FR
- List of automobile manufacturers
- List of bicycle parts
- List of aviation, aerospace and aeronautical terms
- List of famous trains
- List of heritage railways
- List of bridges: UK, USA
- List of suspension bridges
- List of light-rail transit systems (tram)
- List of metro systems (subway)
- List of roads and highways: US interstates, UK motorways
- List of spacecraft
- List of tunnels: NL, NZ, UK
Medicine, Health, and the Body
- List of medical topics
- List of health topics
- List of anatomical topics
- Glossaries and abbreviations
- List of human anatomical features
- List of diseases
- List of rare diseases (6000+ diseases)
- List of notifiable diseases (USA, from CDC document)
- List of infectious diseases
- List of genetic disorders
- List of disabilities
- List of mental illnesses
- List of neurological disorders
- List of surgical procedures
- List of sex positions
- List of sex-related topics
- Reference ranges for common blood tests
Philosophy and Religion
Philosophy
Religion
- List of religious topics
- List of Bible stories
- List of Biblical names
- List of Buddhist terms and concepts
- List of deities
- List of demons
- List of Di Indigetes
- List of Islamic terms in Arabic
- List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
- List of people by belief
- List of Religions of the world
Social Sciences
Psychology
Language and words
- List of linguistic topics
- List of languages
- Alphabets (and list of alphabets) and Orthography
- Arabic alphabet
- Aramaic alphabet
- Braille
- Coptic alphabet
- Cyrillic alphabet
- Gothic alphabet
- Greek alphabet
- Hangul (Korean alphabet)
- Hebrew alphabet
- Kannada language (and alphabet)
- Hiragana, Katakana (Japanese alphabet)
- Morse code
- NATO phonetic alphabet
- Phoenician alphabet
- Runic alphabet
- SAMPA Chart
- SAMPA chart for English
- Shavian alphabet
- Thai alphabet
- Pronunciation
- Morphemes/Word endings
- List of Isms
- List of Ographies
- List of ologies
- List of -onyms
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
Word categorization schemes
- Wiktionary:Definitions by language
- Wiktionary:Definitions by topic
- Word (and Phrases) by Region
- English words by time
- List of archaic English words and their modern equivalents
- Wiktionary:English Neologisms (includes words coined by all of us!)
- Word length
- Basic Word Lists
- Wikipedia:Common words, searching for which is not possible (with the Wikipedia search engine)
- Wiktionary:Swadesh List
- Basic English (includes list of the 850 core words)
Words and Expressions (subsets of)
- Parts of Speech
- Word length
- Words (and Phrases) in Non-English Languages
- Slang
- List of internet slang
- Expressions
- English Oddities (for words, phrases, spelling, etc.)
- List of genericized trademarks
Sociology
- List of sociological topics
- List of sociologists
- List of ethnic groups
- List of environmental organizations
- List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations
- List of literature on rural issues
- Types of rural communities
Business and finance
- List of accounting topics
- list of management topics
- list of marketing topics
- list of economics topics
- list of finance topics
- list of human resource management topics
- list of information technology management topics
- list of business law topics
- list of production topics
- list of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics
- Lists of companies (by nationality and industry)
- List of banks
- List of department stores
- List of supermarkets
- 4217 currency codes
- List of employer associations
- List of labor unions
- List of strikes
- List of shopping malls
- List of stock exchanges
- List of stock market indices
- List of U.S. states by unemployment rate
- Timeline of the Enron scandal
- List of product failures
People
For many different lists of people see lists of people. This includes lists by surname, nationality, occupation, office held, and belief.
Events and History
- List of historical topics
- General tables
- List of famous archaeological discoveries
- List of famous archaeological sites
- List of contemporary civil wars
- List of diplomatic doctrines
- List of disasters
- List of earthquakes
- List of explorations
- List of extinct countries, empires, etc.
- List of firsts
- Major cases of genocide
- List of guerrilla movements
- List of historians
- List of historians by area of study
- List of historic fires
- List of hurricanes
- Timeline of invention
- List of famous kidnappings
- List of massacres
- List of musical events
- List of power outages
- List of riots
- List of Roman sites: UK
- List of strikes
- List of tariffs
- List of terrorist groups
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of treaties
- List of United States Supreme Court cases
- List of world records in chess
Government, law and politics
- List of governmental topics
- List of legal topics
- List of Uniform Acts (United States)
- List of jurists
- List of basic criminal justice topics
- List of international public law topics
- List of United States Supreme Court cases
- List of Supreme Court of Canada cases
- List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council & House of Lords cases
- List of law schools in Canada
- List of United States Federal Legislation
- List of international declarations
- List of treaties
- List of items for which possession is restricted
- List of law schools in the United States
- List of law schools
- Past Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States
- List of articles on politics
- List of Abbreviations used in CIA World Factbook
- List of committees of the United States Senate
- List of intelligence agencies
- List of literature on political science
- List of national anthems
- List of political parties
- List of Green party issues
- List of United Nations Member States
- List of U.S. federal agencies
- List of Taliban leaders
Military
- List of military topics
- List of battles: chronological, alphabetical, geographic
- List of guerrilla movements
- List of military aircraft: Luftwaffe, Soviet Union and CIS, USA, Royal Air Force
- List of military missions, operations, and projects
- List of military technology and equipment
- List of missiles
- List of NATO reporting names
- List of territorial occupations
- List of ships
- Lists of navy ships: Germany, Japan, UK, USA, USSR
- List of Naval Vessels of World War II
- List of aircraft carriers
- List of swords
- List of tanks
- List of terrorist groups
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of US Army acronyms
- List of US defense contractors
- List of United States military bases
- List of wars
Higher education and schools
- List of colleges and universities
- List of colleges and universities by country
- List of medieval universities
- School and university in literature
- List of research institutes
- List of business schools
- List of schools: UK, US
Organizations/Institutions
Vocational
Profession and Activities
Domestic Knowledge
(see also HowTos)
Recognized Achievements
Arts and culture
Art
Literature
- List of literary topics
- List of fiction genres
- List of books usually included in the Western canon
- List of banned books
- List of books
- List of comic books
- List of comic strips
- List of fairy tales
- List of scientific journals
Fiction
(See also List of fiction genres.)- List of Celtic mythological beings
- Index of lists of fictional animals
- List of fictional apes (and other non-human primates, excluding Monkeys and Chimps)
- List of fictional bears
- List of fictional birds
- List of fictional cats
- List of fictional dinosaurs
- List of fictional dogs
- List of fictional elephants
- List of fictional horses
- List of fictional humans
- List of fictional mice and rats
- List of fictional pigs
- List of fictional rabbits
- List of fictional animals of other species
- List of fictional species
- List of fictional battles
- List of fictional characters
- List of unseen characters
- List of fictional cities
- List of fictional companies
- List of fictional computers
- List of fictional countries
- List of fictional robots
- List of Greek mythological characters
- List of demigods
- List of imaginary universes
- List of fictional planets
Major themes
- Adultery in literature
- Family life in literature
- Heroines in literature
- School and university in literature
- Smuggling in literature
- Tourism in literature
- Science fiction themes
- List of BDSM fiction
Music
- List of musical topics
- List of albums
- List of composers
- List of compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Electronic music:
- List of famous operas
- Types of folk music
- List of independent record labels
- List of musical events
- List of musical genres
- List of musical instruments
- List of musical topics
- List of opera houses
- List of operettas
- Punk music
- List of record labels
- List of psychedelic music artists
- Lists of Songs
Cinema
- List of cinema topics
- List of movies: A-D E-I J-R S-Z
- List of 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s movies
- List of cult films
- List of devil-child movies
- List of films noirs
- List of films preserved in the United States National Film Registry
- List of gay movies
- List of highest-grossing films see also: List of major flops
- List of musical films
- List of remakes
- List of Stephen King films
- List of war films
- List of Westerns
- List of film festivals
- List of film institutes
- List of 'years in film'
Radio
Television
- List of television topics
- List of 'years in television'
- List of television networks
- List of television stations
- Lists of television channels
- List of television programs
- Broadcast by BBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, UPN, Cartoon Network
- List of animated series
- List of British TV shows remade for the American market
- List of children's television shows
- List of comedies
- List of game shows
- List of science fiction television programs
- List of television commercials
- List of television spin-offs
- Episode lists
- List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes
- List of Firefly episodes
- List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episodes
- The Simpsons episode list
- List of Sliders episodes
- List of South Park episodes
- List of Star Trek episodes:
- The Original Series (1966-1969)
- The Next Generation (1987-1994)
- Deep Space Nine (1993-1999)
- Voyager (1995-2001)
- Enterprise (2001- )
- List of The Twilight Zone episodes
- List of Xena: Warrior Princess episodes
- List of Yes, (Prime) Minister episodes
- List of characters from The Simpsons
Ceremonies/Festivals/Meetings
Sports and games
- List of sports
- List of lifetime home run leaders through history
- Triple crown (baseball)
- List of major league baseball players
- List of highest paid baseball players
- List of climbing areas
- List of game topics
- List of games
- List of football teams
- List of French Football League teams
- Olympic medalists
- IOC country codes
- List of chess openings
- List of world records in chess
- List of computer and video games
- List of defunct sports leagues
- List of Dreamcast games
- List of Mancala variants
- List of Japanese board games
- List of NES games
- List of Pokémon
- List of Atari 2600 games
- Poker jargon: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Humor
- List of humor topics
- List of lightbulb jokes
- List of major flops
- List of You have two cows
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