A History of the World in 100 Objects

A History of the World in 100 Objects - book and associated media & objects from the British Museum. This book is the 5370^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “A History of the World in 100 Objects” in English Wikipedia has 74.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 50 references and 29 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “A History of the World in 100 Objects” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “A History of the World in 100 Objects”, its content was written by 139 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 327 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

A History of the World in 100 Objects is on the 5370^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 409 times in English Wikipedia and cited 669 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4696 in June 2010
• Global: #34324 in March 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #70241 in October 2010
• Global: #86681 in March 2022

There are 12 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) A History of the World in 100 Objects		100
2	Tamil (ta) 100 பொருட்களில் உலக வரலாறு		96.9231
3	English (en) A History of the World in 100 Objects		74.6975
4	Spanish (es) Una historia del mundo en cien objetos		66.3461
5	Arabic (ar) تاريخ العالم في 100 قطعة أثرية		63.5471
6	French (fr) Une histoire du monde en cent objets		62.9943
7	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆100件文物中的世界史		62.2931
8	Japanese (ja) 100のモノが語る世界の歴史		60.0409
9	Korean (ko) 100대 유물로 보는 세계사		58.5527
10	Italian (it) A History of the World in 100 Objects		57.5597

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "A History of the World in 100 Objects" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) A History of the World in 100 Objects		826 209
2	German (de) A History of the World in 100 Objects		48 972
3	French (fr) Une histoire du monde en cent objets		38 125
4	Spanish (es) Una historia del mundo en cien objetos		34 634
5	Japanese (ja) 100のモノが語る世界の歴史		13 376
6	Tamil (ta) 100 பொருட்களில் உலக வரலாறு		11 969
7	Korean (ko) 100대 유물로 보는 세계사		11 147
8	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆100件文物中的世界史		9 951
9	Arabic (ar) تاريخ العالم في 100 قطعة أثرية		3 490
10	Finnish (fi) A History of the World in 100 Objects		2 481

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "A History of the World in 100 Objects" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) A History of the World in 100 Objects		2 089
2	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆100件文物中的世界史		357
3	German (de) A History of the World in 100 Objects		211
4	Korean (ko) 100대 유물로 보는 세계사		141
5	Japanese (ja) 100のモノが語る世界の歴史		139
6	Spanish (es) Una historia del mundo en cien objetos		76
7	Arabic (ar) تاريخ العالم في 100 قطعة أثرية		67
8	Italian (it) A History of the World in 100 Objects		50
9	French (fr) Une histoire du monde en cent objets		45
10	Tamil (ta) 100 பொருட்களில் உலக வரலாறு		26

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "A History of the World in 100 Objects" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) A History of the World in 100 Objects		139
2	French (fr) Une histoire du monde en cent objets		60
3	German (de) A History of the World in 100 Objects		28
4	Japanese (ja) 100のモノが語る世界の歴史		22
5	Spanish (es) Una historia del mundo en cien objetos		19
6	Tamil (ta) 100 பொருட்களில் உலக வரலாறு		16
7	Italian (it) A History of the World in 100 Objects		12
8	Korean (ko) 100대 유물로 보는 세계사		9
9	Arabic (ar) تاريخ العالم في 100 قطعة أثرية		7
10	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆100件文物中的世界史		6

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "A History of the World in 100 Objects" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) A History of the World in 100 Objects		1
2	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆100件文物中的世界史		1
3	Arabic (ar) تاريخ العالم في 100 قطعة أثرية		0
4	German (de) A History of the World in 100 Objects		0
5	Spanish (es) Una historia del mundo en cien objetos		0
6	Persian (fa) یک تاریخ جهان در ۱۰۰ شیء		0
7	Finnish (fi) A History of the World in 100 Objects		0
8	French (fr) Une histoire du monde en cent objets		0
9	Italian (it) A History of the World in 100 Objects		0
10	Japanese (ja) 100のモノが語る世界の歴史		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "A History of the World in 100 Objects" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) A History of the World in 100 Objects		409
2	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆100件文物中的世界史		58
3	Korean (ko) 100대 유물로 보는 세계사		40
4	Tamil (ta) 100 பொருட்களில் உலக வரலாறு		39
5	Spanish (es) Una historia del mundo en cien objetos		35
6	German (de) A History of the World in 100 Objects		27
7	French (fr) Une histoire du monde en cent objets		20
8	Arabic (ar) تاريخ العالم في 100 قطعة أثرية		16
9	Japanese (ja) 100のモノが語る世界の歴史		11
10	Italian (it) A History of the World in 100 Objects		9

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تاريخ العالم في 100 قطعة أثرية
de	German A History of the World in 100 Objects
en	English A History of the World in 100 Objects
es	Spanish Una historia del mundo en cien objetos
fa	Persian یک تاریخ جهان در ۱۰۰ شیء
fi	Finnish A History of the World in 100 Objects
fr	French Une histoire du monde en cent objets
it	Italian A History of the World in 100 Objects
ja	Japanese 100のモノが語る世界の歴史
ko	Korean 100대 유물로 보는 세계사
ta	Tamil 100 பொருட்களில் உலக வரலாறு
zh	Chinese 大英博物馆100件文物中的世界史

Best Rank

English: #70241 10.2010

Global: #86681 03.2022

Best Rank

English: #4696 06.2010

Global: #34324 03.2022

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