What is the difference between a URI, a URL and a URN?

Question

People talk about URLs, URIs, and URNs as if they\'re different things, but they look the same to the naked eye.

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Answer 1

URI => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier

URL's are a subset of URI's (which also contain URNs).

Basically, a URI is a general identifier, where a URL specifies a location and a URN specifies a name.