Wikimapia

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Wikimapia

Type of site	Geographic online encyclopedia
Available in	101 languages, including English
Country of origin	Russia
Created by	Alexander Koryakin and Eugen Saveliev[1]
Revenue	From AdSense and Wikimapia Ads[2]
URL	wikimapia.org
Commercial	yes
Registration	Optional
Users	2,500,000 (latest available figure)
Launched	May 24, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-05-24)
Current status	Active
Content license	Creative Commons (CC BY-SA)[3]

Wikimapia (stylized as wikimapia) is a geographic online encyclopedia project. The project implements an interactive "clickable" web map that utilizes Google Maps with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world.