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Featured pictures in Wikipedia

This star symbolizes the featured content on Wikipedia.

This star symbolizes the featured content on Wikipedia.

This page highlights the finest images on Wikipedia. The featured picture criteria explains 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 46 featured pictures, and they are categorized below by the topic they represent. All featured pictures are also available in a category.

If you wish to add a specific image to this page, please nominate it at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

One or more featured pictures are chosen as the picture of the day (POTD). You can include a box displaying the current POTD anywhere (e.g. your user page) by adding the text Template:Tl or Template:Tl where you want the picture to be shown. If you have uploaded a picture that, though not featured, is good, you could list it at the Random Picture of the day

Featured pictures from all Wikimedia projects can be browsed by subject or by country on Wikimedia Commons.

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• Featured picture criteria
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Directory of featured pictures

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• Animals
• Artwork
• Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle
• Currency
• Diagrams, drawings, and maps
• Engineering and technology
• Food and drink
• Fungi
• History
• Natural phenomena
• People
• Photographic techniques, terms, and equipment
• Places
• Plants
• Sciences
• Space
• Vehicles
• Other lifeforms
• Other

Animals

File:Grey Francolin in Bhigwan August 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 04.jpg File:027 Chestnut-eared aracari in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg File:Oustalet's chameleon (Furcifer oustaleti) male Montagne d’Ambre.jpg

» subpages: amphibians, arachnids, birds, cnidarians, crustaceans, echinoderms, fish, insects, mammals, molluscs, reptiles, others

Artwork

File:Composition VII - Wassily Kandinsky, GAC.jpg File:Essener-Krone-Domschatz-Essen-02-2025.jpg File:Massacre of the Mamelukes at Cairo (jpg version and without frame).jpg

» subpages: East Asian art, literary illustrations, paintings, sculpture, others

Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle

File:Don't Spit it's Disgusting and Dangerous (21862561031).jpg File:Bird Simurgh on Nadir Devanbegi Madrasah, Bukhara (Симург на Медресе Нодир-Диван-Беги, Nodir devonbegi madrasasi).jpg File:8th century Standing Shiva Mahadeva, Kashmir, India, Clevelandart 1989.369.jpg

» subpages: culture and lifestyle, entertainment, film, religion and mythology, sport, theatre

Currency

File:1907 Ultra High Relief $20 Double Eagle (Inverted Edge Letters).jpg File:Coin of Nader Shah, minted in Daghestan (Dagestan).jpg File:US-00010-One Cent (1974) Aluminum.jpg

» subpages: American currency, Asian currency, European currency, USA banknotes, USA coins, other

Diagrams, drawings, and maps

File:PEF Survey of Western Palestine composite.jpg File:Atlas Van der Hagen-KW1049B12 087-INSULARUM MELITAE Vulgo MALTAE et GOZAE.jpeg File:De oprichting van de obelisk op het St. Pietersplein, RP-P-OB-207.655.jpg

» subpages: diagrams, drawings, maps

Engineering and technology

File:Japan Airlines 777 Engine Failure on Departure (2 of 2) (51599589068).jpg File:Magura Julie disk brake rotor 160 mm.jpg File:Nintendo-DSi-Bl-Open.jpg

» subpages: electronics, machinery, weaponry, others. See also: vehicles

Food and drink

File:Foodiesfeed.com pouring-honey-on-pancakes-with-walnuts.jpg File:Gurabija (гурабија,Qurabiya; Cuisine of Serbia).jpg File:Einmannpackung Typ1 Inhaltsübersicht.jpg

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Fungi

File:Lactarius resimus Груздь настоящий.jpg File:Striegeliger Schichtpilz-Stereum hirsutum-20191216-RM-150832.jpg File:Comatricha nigra 176600092.jpg

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History

File:Tokyo Stabbing.jpg File:The Indian Mutiny 1857-1859 Q69824.jpg File:Hindenburg disaster, 1937.jpg

» subpages: American history, other history, American Civil War, World War I, World War II, other wars

Natural phenomena

File:Gigantic jet NOIRLab.jpg File:Walaka, Rosa, Sergio, Leslie and Kong-rey 2018-10-02.jpg File:Yellowstone National Park (WY, USA), Old Faithful Geyser -- 2022 -- 2599.jpg

» subpages: atmospheric optics, weather, others

People

File:Portrait of Russell Lee, FSA (Farm Security Administration) photographer.jpg File:Bonnie and Clyde fooling around Getty 514872400.jpg File:Stage 20 Tour de France 2024 Col de la Couillole 40.jpg

» subpages: artists, business, entertainment, law, military, political, religious figures, royalty and nobility, science and engineering, sport, traditional dress, writers, others

Photographic techniques, terms, and equipment

File:First camera phone picture.gif File:NBSFirstScanImageRestored.jpg File:Self portrait (8618889472).jpg

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Places

File:Tosh Gate, Khiva (Toshdarvoza, Таш-дарваза - южные ворота, Хива).jpg File:Castle of Estaing 22.jpg File:McWay Falls Big Sur September 2012 002.jpg

» subpages: architecture, interiors, landscapes, panorama, urban, others

Plants

File:Achacha fruits and seed.jpg File:Rijpe vruchten van Hertshooi (Hypericum). 17-08-2024 (d.j.b.).jpg File:Blühendes Strand-Milchkraut (Glaux maritima) am Strand von Norderney 03.jpg

» subpages: flowers, fruits, others

Sciences

File:Gypse Caresse.jpg File:Porto Covo Outubro 2014-3.jpg File:Cytoplasmic streaming.webm

» subpages: biology, geology, materials science, mathematics, others. See also: astronomy.

Space

File:Trifid and Lagoon nebulae.jpg File:Olympic Peninsula with Puget Sound by Sentinel-2, 2018-09-28 (small version).jpg File:Virgo Cluster taken by Vera C. Rubin (noirlab2521a).jpg

» subpages: getting there, looking back, looking out, panorama, understanding

Vehicles

File:SS Sankt Erik icebreaker museum ship Stockholm 2016 02.jpg File:Shikara - Sukhna Lake - Chandigarh 2016-08-07 (edit).jpg File:DDG-125 acceptance trials.jpg

» subpages: air, land, water

Other lifeforms

File:Деления инфузорий Colpidium.webm File:Pinnularia major.jpg File:The ciliate Frontonia sp.jpg

» subpages: bacteria, protists

Other

File:Ebola Virus - Electron Micrograph.tiff File:Train station with train and coal depot by Gustave Le Gray1.jpg File:Plasma globe 23s.webm

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Types

• Vital articles
• Featured content
• Good articles
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• Overviews
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• Lists
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• Glossaries
• Categories
• Indices

Places, people and times

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