# National Geographic Society
> American non-profit scientific and educational institution.

- Canonical entity: https://readyscan.ai/entities/national-geographic-society-q167186
- Website listed in the source snapshot: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/
- Category: [Nonprofit organizations](https://readyscan.ai/directory/nonprofit-organizations)
- Machine record: https://readyscan.ai/discovery/entities/national-geographic-society-q167186.json
- Material fingerprint: fnv1a64:013a50a36baf9f84
- Entity revision: fnv1a64:493cd5b2a7967271
- Published: 2026-09-30
- Modified: 2026-09-30

## Company details
- Founded: 1888 Sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q167186.json?revision=2548997285

## Sources
- [National Geographic Society — Wikidata Q167186](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q167186.json?revision=2548997285) — Wikidata
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- [CC0 1.0 Universal](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) — Wikidata

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