What’s the term for the part of the URL after the question mark?

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It’s the query, or sometimes the query string.

To pinch a useful diagram from the URI RFC:

     foo://example.com:8042/over/there?name=ferret#nose
     \_/   \______________/\_________/ \_________/ \__/
      |           |            |            |        |
   scheme     authority       path        query   fragment

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