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Lists of animated films
Lists of animated films: reference compilations (chronological, studio-canon, archival, award-eligibility, ranked guides) covering animated shorts and features; shaped by definitions like the Academy's 40-minute and 75 percent animation rules.
Lists of anime
Lists of anime: organized anime catalogs and trackers such as MyAnimeList (~28,000 titles), AniList, AniDB, and Anime News Network, plus genre indexes and seasonal charts, including MAL's 2025 acquisition by Gaudiy Inc.
Lists of Armenians
Lists of Armenians are reference compilations of notable people of Armenian origin by field, period, or country. Diaspora size (7–9 million), Armenian-origin citizenship criteria, and biographical sources shape who appears on them.
Lists of astronomical objects
Lists of astronomical objects, also known as lists of celestial bodies, are catalogs recording stars, galaxies, and exoplanets, ranging from ancient star lists to modern surveys like Gaia.
Lists of births by year
Lists of births by year are reference indexes organizing births, either of notable people or as demographic counts, by calendar year; related tools include books of days, census schedules, and civil registration records used for genealogy.
Lists of cities
Lists of cities: compilations of urban settlements by population, status, or country. Key sources include UN World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (DEGURBA, 12,000+ cities of 50,000+), national lists like GOV.UK city status, and definition-sensitive rankings (Jakarta 42M, Dhaka 37M, Tokyo 33M).
Lists of cities by country
Lists of cities by country: reference city lists per country, complicated by differing definitions of city proper, urban agglomeration, and UN DEGURBA density-based cities.
Lists of cities in Europe
Lists of cities in Europe rank urban settlements by population or function; figures depend on definitions. Eurostat's Urban Audit and the EU-OECD harmonized city and functional urban area definitions (2011) standardize them.
Lists of colors
The lists of colors, also covered as a list of color names, anchor color names to defined values in systems like CSS named colors and the ISCC-NBS dictionary.
Lists of cricket records
Lists of cricket records: compilations of cricket's statistical achievements (most runs, wickets, averages) by format, from Victorian almanacks like Wisden (1864) and Frindall's record books to ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru database.
Lists of currently active military equipment by country
Country-by-country lists of active military equipment: IISS Military Balance (170+ countries, since 1959), FlightGlobal World Air Forces, WDMMA, UNROCA, and national statistics, with definitions, coverage, and comparability limits.
Lists of Dancing with the Stars (American TV series) episodes
Episode lists for Dancing with the Stars (American TV series), the ABC celebrity ballroom competition premiering June 1, 2005. Covers 35 seasons and about 519 episodes, the results-show era, the 500th episode, and season 34 and 35 episode guides.
Lists of DC Comics characters
Lists of DC Comics characters: official and fan reference catalogs indexing DC's heroes, villains, and teams, from DC.com's 251 curated profiles and the DC Comics Encyclopedia to the 30,000-plus entry DC Database and appearance chronologies.
Lists of deaths by year
Lists of deaths by year: index pages organizing notable-death articles by calendar year, with monthly "Deaths in" pages, year-boundary reporting delays, and the distinction from statistical mortality counts.
Lists of demons
Lists of demons: catalogues of infernal spirits with ranks, offices, appearances and legions, from the Livre des Esperitz (46 demons) and Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (69, 1577) to the Ars Goetia's 72 spirits and Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal.
Lists of disasters
Lists of disasters are catalogs of disaster events, led by EM-DAT (CRED, 1988, 26,000+ entries since 1900), DesInventar, and NOAA's billion-dollar list; entry thresholds and reporting, time, and geographic biases shape their counts.
Lists of drugs
Lists of drugs: WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EML, EMLc), ATC classification, and RxNorm; how medicines are selected, coded, and adopted by 150+ countries.
Lists of earthquakes
Lists of earthquakes: USGS Latest Earthquakes, Significant Earthquakes Archive, and ComCat catalog searches, plus ISC-GEM and GHEC historical catalogs; significance score above 600 qualifies events.
Lists of endangered languages
Lists of endangered languages: catalogs such as UNESCO's World Atlas of Languages, ELCat/Endangered Languages Project, Glottolog, and Ethnologue that classify language vitality, speaker numbers, and endangerment criteria worldwide.
Lists of ended Netflix original programming
Lists of ended Netflix original programming catalog Netflix Original series that completed their runs or were canceled, from House of Cards (2013–2018) and Orange Is the New Black to 2026 casualties like The Abandons, with roughly one in five originals canceled early over a decade.
Lists of English words by country or language of origin
Lists of English words by country or language of origin, also called loanword or borrowing lists, group English vocabulary by donor language such as French, Latin, Old Norse, Arabic, Persian, or Chinese. Key figures: about half of the 1,000 most frequent English words are French or Latin loans; Arabic loans total 2,338 recorded items.
Lists of environmental topics
Lists of environmental topics are index pages organizing subjects like climate change, air quality, and biodiversity, maintained by agencies such as the US EPA and UNEP.
Lists of extinct species
Lists of extinct species inventory organisms whose last individual has died, chiefly via the IUCN Red List Extinct (EX) category, with prehistoric extinctions documented from the fossil record and the Big Five mass extinctions.
Lists of fauna of Europe
Lists of fauna of Europe: organized inventories of European animal species, chiefly Fauna Europaea, PESI, and the European Red List. Over 100,000 invertebrate, 800 bird/mammal, and 1,800 fish species; scope set by the Fauna Europaea definition of Europe.
Lists of films
Lists of films: reference lists organizing movies as curated canons, official registries (National Film Registry), critics' polls (Sight and Sound), catalogs (AFI Catalog), and box-office rankings, with methods, electorates, and update cycles.
Lists of films by genre
Lists of films by genre are genre taxonomies and inventories maintained by libraries, databases, and publishers; key examples include the Library of Congress Moving Image Genre-Form Guide, LCGFT, IMDb's 28-genre list, and López's 775-category Films by Genre.
Lists of films considered the worst
Lists of films considered the worst: published rankings by Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, The Independent, and the Razzies identifying widely panned films such as Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, Gigli, and The Room.
Lists of films released by Disney
The lists of films released by Disney are reference catalogs of feature films produced or released by The Walt Disney Company, spanning from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 onward.
Lists of flags
Lists of flags: reference compilations of flags by owner or design, spanning printed flag books (Smith 1975, Znamierowski 1999), museum bibliographies, and online databases like FOTW and FlagDB.
Lists of foods
Lists of foods: organized food classification systems grouping foods by type, use, or processing. Covers FAO/WHO GIFT's four groupings, Eurocode 2, LanguaL, WWEIA categories, and the four-group NOVA system.