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Featured pictures in Wikipedia

This page highlights the finest images on Wikipedia. The featured picture criteria explain that featured pictures must be freely licensed or in the public domain, must be of a high technical quality, and must add significantly to at least one article on Wikipedia. There are currently 5,874 featured pictures, and they are categorized by the topic they represent. All featured pictures are also available in a category.

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One featured picture is chosen as the picture of the day. You can include this box anywhere (e.g., your user page) by adding the text {{pic of the day}} or {{POTD}} where you want the picture to be shown.

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Animals

Hornviper Cerastes cerastes.jpg Brown Bluff-2016-Tabarin Peninsula–Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) 03.jpg Japanese pygmy woodpecker in Sakai, Osaka, February 2016.jpg
» subpages: amphibians, arachnids, birds, cnidarians, crustaceans, fish, insects, mammals, molluscs, reptiles, others

Artwork

Tobias and the Angel - Filippino Lippi.jpg BoschTheCrucifixionOfStJulia.jpg Your motherland will never forget - restoration.jpg
» subpages: East Asian art, literary illustrations, paintings, sculpture, others

Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle

Poesaka Terpendam ad, Poestaka Timoer 66 (15 Oct 1941), p3.jpg Bertillon, Alphonse, fiche anthropométrique recto-verso.jpg 1 singapore national day parade 2011 fireworks.jpg
» subpages: culture and lifestyle, entertainment, religion and mythology, sport, theatre

Currency

US-NBN-HI-Honolulu-5550-1882BB-10-1-B.jpg Portugal 1729 8 Escudos.jpg Argentina 1828 8 Escudos.jpg
» subpages: American currency, Asian currency, European currency, USA banknotes, USA coins, Other

Diagrams, drawings, and maps

Nueva Esparta Map English.svg Coat of arms of Mexico.svg Conventional 18-wheeler truck diagram.svg
» subpages: diagrams, drawings, maps

Engineering and technology

Trojan Room coffee pot xcoffee.png Xbox One Console Set.jpg Miinitraaleri "Virsaitis" vrakk.jpg
» subpages: electronics, machinery, weaponry, others. See also: vehicles

Food and drink

Cinnamomum verum spices.jpg Buckwheat and products from it 01.jpg Egyptian food Koshary.jpg
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Fungi

Meripilus giganteus (Karst 1882).jpg Zierliche Koralle Ramaria gracilis.JPG Hydnellum ferrugineum Glieres.jpg
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History

E 003261 E Maoris in North Africa July 1941.jpg Henry Mayer, The Awakening, 1915 Cornell CUL PJM 1176 01 - Restoration.jpg Vivian Malone registering.jpg
» subpages: American history, other history, American Civil War, World War I, World War II, other wars

Natural phenomena

Dülmen, Wildpark -- 2014 -- 3808 color balanced.jpg 2011 Winter in Alaska.jpg Patricia 2015-10-23 1730Z (Worldview).jpg
» subpages: atmospheric optics, weather, others

People

Booker T. Washington by Francis Benjamin Johnston, c. 1895.jpg William H. Crook photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston.jpg Laura Dekker (cropped).jpg
» subpages: artists and writers, business, entertainment, military, political, religious figures, royalty and nobility, science and engineering, sport, traditional dress, others

Photographic techniques, terms, and equipment

Yellowing of thorium lenses.jpg LEI0190 188 Leica Standard Chrom Sn. 244297 1937 -38-M39 Front view-5809 hf.jpg Gustave Le Gray - Brig upon the Water - Google Art Project.jpg
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Places

Mount Ararat and the Yerevan skyline.jpg Bathwick Hill, Bath, Somerset, UK - Diliff.jpg 2014 Erywań, Katedra św. Grzegorza Oświeciciela (05).jpg
» subpages: architecture, interiors, landscapes, panorama, urban, others

Plants

India - Varanasi green peas - 2714.jpg Echinocereus reichenbachii by RO.jpg Passiflora caerulea (makro close-up).jpg
» subpages: flowers, fruits, others

Sciences

Earthworm head.svg Prokaryote cell.svg ReverseGeneticsFlu.svg
» subpages: biology, geology, materials science, mathematics, others. See also: astronomy.

Space

Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Big Sky' Drilling Site.jpg Pluto-01 Stern 03 Pluto Color TXT.jpg
» subpages: getting there, looking back, looking out, panorama, understanding

Vehicles

Funifor Arabba Porta Vescovo.jpg Birka June 2013.jpg North American B-25 Mitchell Góraszka 2007.jpg
» subpages: air, land, water

Other lifeforms

Staphylococcus aureus, 50,000x, USDA, ARS, EMU.jpg Flagellum base diagram en.svg Gephyrocapsa oceanica color.jpg
» subpages: bacteria, protists

Other

Train station with train and coal depot by Gustave Le Gray1.jpg 1Mcolors.png
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