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Picture of the Year 2021

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Picture of the Year 2021 was the sixteenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons image competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons (FP) during the year 2021, to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Picture of the Year 2021

Saint John Church of Sohrol is a 5th- or 6th-century Armenian Catholic church in Sohrol, Shabestar, Iran.

Attribution: Farzin Izaddoust dar / CC-BY-SA 4.0

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374 votes

Second place: A leaf beetle (Aulacophora indica) (Family: Chrysomelidae; subfamily: Galerucinae) looking out from a leaf hole of Alnus nepalensis tree. Adult leaf beetles make holes in host plant leaves while feeding. They camouflage themselves with these holes. Location: Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
Attribution: Mildeep (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
348 votes
Third place: Firefighter fighting a battle against a veld-fire at Ashton Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa.
Attribution: StevenTerblanche (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
332 votes

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