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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 5,817 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

Tropical kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus).JPG Common brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) male.jpg Yellow-headed caracara (Milvago chimachima) on capybara (Hydrochoeris hydrochaeris).JPG
» subpages: amphibians, arachnids, birds, cnidarians, crustaceans, fish, insects, mammals, molluscs, reptiles, others

Artwork

Henri Motte - La fiancée de Bélus (1885).jpg Charles Marion Russell – Smoke of a .45 – Google Art Project.jpg Albert Bierstadt - Among the Sierra Nevada, California - Google Art Project.jpg
» subpages: East Asian art, literary illustrations, paintings, sculpture, others

Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle

De Orient Magazine advertisement for Panggilan Darah (1941).jpg 1 epcot illuminations 2010.jpg
» subpages: culture and lifestyle, entertainment, religion and mythology, sport, theatre

Currency

Belgium 1835 40 Francs.jpg SWA-15a-Swakopmunder Buchhandlung-Two Mark (1916).jpg Costa Rica 1897 20 Colones (proof).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

Buckwheat and products from it 01.jpg Egyptian food Koshary.jpg Amplang from Kotabaru, South Kalimantan 2015-05-23 01.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

Lawson Wood - Parliamentary Recruiting Committee - Your King & Country Need You.jpg Women of Britain Say - "Go" - World War I British poster by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, art by E J Kealey (Restoration).jpg 20151030 Syrians and Iraq refugees arrive at Skala Sykamias Lesvos Greece 2.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

Hans Holbein der Jüngere - Der Kaufmann Georg Gisze - Google Art Project.jpg Mary Pickford cph.3c17995u.jpg Zelfportret - Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen.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

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 LEI0060 186 Leica I Sn.5193 1927 Originalzustand Front-2 FS-15.jpg
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Places

Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, 2007.jpg Phipps Conservatory winter 2015 Broderie Room.jpg St Augustine's Church, Kilburn Interior 1, London, UK - Diliff.jpg
+3 others
» 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

Prokaryote cell.svg ReverseGeneticsFlu.svg Human skull side simplified (bones).svg
» subpages: biology, geology, materials science, mathematics, others. See also: astronomy.

Space

Pluto-01 Stern 03 Pluto Color TXT.jpg Galileo launch on Soyuz, 21 Oct 2011 (6266227357).jpg Ultraviolet image of the Cygnus Loop Nebula crop.jpg
» subpages: getting there, looking back, looking out, panorama, understanding

Vehicles

Birka June 2013.jpg North American B-25 Mitchell Góraszka 2007.jpg CF-1 flight test.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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