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title: "What is the difference between URL and URI?"  
description: "What is the difference between URL and URI?"  
author: "Somesh"  
published: 2010-11-30  
updated: 2020-09-14  
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category: "asp.net"  
tags: ["asp.net"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is the difference between URL and URI?

A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the address of some resource on the Web. A resource is nothing but a page of a site. There are other type of resources than Web pages, but that's the easiest conceptually.

A URI is a unique identifier to usually a namespace.\
Though it looks like a URL but it doesn’t have to necessarily locate any resource on the web.

## Answers

### Answer by Somesh

A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the address of some resource on the Web. A resource is nothing but a page of a site. There are other type of resources than Web pages, but that's the easiest conceptually.

A URI is a unique identifier to usually a namespace.\
Though it looks like a URL but it doesn’t have to necessarily locate any resource on the web.


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