diff --git a/docs/source/format/CanonicalExtensions.rst b/docs/source/format/CanonicalExtensions.rst
index 1f055b7f8edb5..b3122f1a73eb8 100644
--- a/docs/source/format/CanonicalExtensions.rst
+++ b/docs/source/format/CanonicalExtensions.rst
@@ -251,6 +251,17 @@ Variable shape tensor
    Values inside each **data** tensor element are stored in row-major/C-contiguous
    order according to the corresponding **shape**.
 
+UUID
+====
+
+* Extension name: `arrow.uuid`.
+
+* The storage type of the extension is ``FixedSizeBinary`` with a length of 16 bytes.
+
+.. note::
+   A specific UUID version is not required or guaranteed. This extension represents
+   UUIDs as FixedSizeBinary(16) and does not interpret the bytes in any way.
+
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 Community Extension Types
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