diff --git a/src/types/workbooks/Connection.ts b/src/types/workbooks/Connection.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..066d404
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/types/workbooks/Connection.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+import type { integer } from '../integer.ts';
+
+/**
+ * Database connection properties (`<dbPr>`), present on a {@link Connection} whose data comes from
+ * a database or a file queried like one (OLE DB / ODBC / Jet).
+ *
+ * @group Workbooks
+ */
+export type ConnectionDbProperties = {
+  /** The OLE DB / ODBC connection string. */
+  connection?: string;
+  /** The command text run against the source — a query, a table name, a cube name, etc. */
+  command?: string;
+  /**
+   * How to interpret {@link command}, as an OOXML numeric code: 1 = cube name, 2 = SQL query,
+   * 3 = table name, 4 = default, 5 = list/web query.
+   */
+  commandType?: integer;
+  /** A secondary command used when the connection is refreshed on the server. */
+  serverCommand?: string;
+};
+
+/**
+ * A workbook data connection — one `<connection>` in `xl/connections.xml`. This is the external
+ * data source behind a pivot cache whose {@link PivotCacheExternal.sourceType} is `'external'`:
+ * that cache's {@link PivotCacheExternal.connectionId} refers to a connection's {@link id}.
+ *
+ * Only the attributes needed to round-trip database/file connections are modelled; other source
+ * kinds (OLAP, web, text) and less common attributes are not yet represented.
+ *
+ * @group Workbooks
+ */
+export type Connection = {
+  /** The connection's identifier, referenced by {@link PivotCacheExternal.connectionId}. */
+  id: integer;
+  /** The connection's name. */
+  name?: string;
+  /** The connection kind as an OOXML numeric code (1 = ODBC, 4 = web, 5 = OLE DB, 6 = text). */
+  type?: integer;
+  /** The file this connection was created from, if any. */
+  sourceFile?: string;
+  /** Whether the connection is kept open between refreshes. */
+  keepAlive?: boolean;
+  /** Whether the connection refreshes in the background. */
+  background?: boolean;
+  /** The Excel version that last refreshed the connection. */
+  refreshedVersion?: integer;
+  /** A stable unique identifier (the `xr16:uid` extension attribute). */
+  uid?: string;
+  /** Database connection properties, present for database/file connections. */
+  dbPr?: ConnectionDbProperties;
+};
diff --git a/src/types/workbooks/Workbook.ts b/src/types/workbooks/Workbook.ts
index df81daa..ebf84d7 100644
--- a/src/types/workbooks/Workbook.ts
+++ b/src/types/workbooks/Workbook.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import type { Theme } from '../themes/index.ts';
 import type { PivotTable } from '../pivotTables/index.ts';
 import type { Worksheet } from '../worksheets/index.ts';
 import type { CalcProps } from './CalcProps.ts';
+import type { Connection } from './Connection.ts';
 import type { WorkbookView } from './WorkbookView.ts';
 
 /**
@@ -27,6 +28,11 @@ export type Workbook = {
   tables?: Table[];
   /** Metadata on the workbook's pivot tables. */
   pivotTables?: PivotTable[];
+  /**
+   * Workbook data connections (`xl/connections.xml`) — e.g. the external data source behind a pivot
+   * cache whose {@link PivotCacheExternal.sourceType} is `'external'`, matched by `connectionId`.
+   */
+  connections?: Connection[];
   /** Directions on how formulas should be recalculated in the workbook. */
   calculationProperties?: CalcProps;
   /** Styles for cells in the workbook. */
diff --git a/src/types/workbooks/index.ts b/src/types/workbooks/index.ts
index ef96858..62450dc 100644
--- a/src/types/workbooks/index.ts
+++ b/src/types/workbooks/index.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 export type * from './CalcProps.ts';
+export type * from './Connection.ts';
 export type * from './Workbook.ts';
 export type * from './WorkbookView.ts';