Area 51

Quality:

Area 519 - classified United States military base at Groom Lake, Nevada alien. Article “Area 51” in English Wikipedia has 91.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 170 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.8 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 703^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2053^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 723^rd most popular in all topics.

The 1592^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3179^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 9841^st most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1937^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8898^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Area 51” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia (9841^st place) and written by 22 authors in all languages (8898^th place).

Since the creation of article “Area 51”, its content was written by 1572 registered users of English Wikipedia (2053^rd place) and edited by 5501 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1592^nd place).

The article is cited 1287 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5197 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #138 in January 2008
• Global: #30 in July 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3 in July 2019
• Global: #3 in July 2019

There are 48 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, 2026 (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	English (en) Area 51		91.2465
2	Hindi (hi) एरिया 51		90
3	Tamil (ta) ஏரியா 51		85.4167
4	Vietnamese (vi) Khu vực 51		77.0648
5	German (de) Area 51		75.5267
6	Portuguese (pt) Área 51		71.8701
7	Greek (el) Περιοχή 51		71.6983
8	Spanish (es) Área 51		55.3078
9	Hebrew (he) אזור 51		54.0491
10	Chinese (zh) 51区		52.6392

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Area 51		53 273 018
2	Spanish (es) Área 51		11 629 589
3	German (de) Area 51		6 556 875
4	French (fr) Zone 51		5 982 462
5	Italian (it) Area 51		4 775 374
6	Russian (ru) Зона 51		4 426 974
7	Portuguese (pt) Área 51		4 146 883
8	Japanese (ja) エリア51		4 143 495
9	Polish (pl) Strefa 51		2 495 433
10	Chinese (zh) 51区		1 764 543

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Area 51		124 745
2	Spanish (es) Área 51		18 150
3	German (de) Area 51		17 893
4	French (fr) Zone 51		13 619
5	Portuguese (pt) Área 51		13 476
6	Russian (ru) Зона 51		11 472
7	Chinese (zh) 51区		10 138
8	Japanese (ja) エリア51		9 757
9	Italian (it) Area 51		7 490
10	Turkish (tr) 51. Bölge		6 610

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Area 51		1 572
2	German (de) Area 51		493
3	French (fr) Zone 51		417
4	Spanish (es) Área 51		386
5	Italian (it) Area 51		292
6	Portuguese (pt) Área 51		197
7	Russian (ru) Зона 51		159
8	Dutch (nl) Area 51		155
9	Chinese (zh) 51区		144
10	Hebrew (he) אזור 51		143

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Area 51		8
2	Spanish (es) Área 51		3
3	French (fr) Zone 51		3
4	Tamil (ta) ஏரியா 51		2
5	Catalan (ca) Àrea 51		1
6	German (de) Area 51		1
7	Hungarian (hu) 51-es körzet		1
8	Russian (ru) Зона 51		1
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Oblast 51		1
10	Ukrainian (uk) Зона 51		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information