British Library

British Library - national library of the United Kingdom. This building is the 621^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 511^th most popular building in English Wikipedia. Article "British Library" in English Wikipedia has 94.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 146 references and 25 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 "British Library" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "British Library", its content was written by 527 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1660 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

British Library is on the 511^th place in local ranking of buildings in English Wikipedia and on the 621^st place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 6083 times in English Wikipedia (3663^rd place) and cited 16502 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #794 in September 2001
• Global: #886 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #20873 in June 2020
• Global: #39323 in June 2020

There are 49 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) British Library		98.2593
2	Catalan (ca) Biblioteca Britànica		95.3824
3	English (en) British Library		94.5256
4	Thai (th) หอสมุดบริติช		72.2008
5	Chinese (zh) 大英图书馆		68.9273
6	Slovenian (sl) Britanska knjižnica		62.811
7	Spanish (es) British Library		48.3223
8	French (fr) British Library		46.9438
9	Croatian (hr) Britanska knjižnica		45.0571
10	Serbian (sr) Britanska biblioteka		44.5236

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

The most popular language versions of the article "British Library" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) British Library		3 215 369
2	German (de) British Library		343 823
3	Russian (ru) Британская библиотека		257 418
4	Japanese (ja) 大英図書館		233 461
5	Spanish (es) British Library		198 189
6	French (fr) British Library		165 175
7	Italian (it) British Library		154 730
8	Chinese (zh) 大英图书馆		152 231
9	Polish (pl) Biblioteka Brytyjska		87 408
10	Arabic (ar) المكتبة البريطانية		76 934

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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 "British Library" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) British Library		12 703
2	Simple English (simple) British Library		755
3	Russian (ru) Британская библиотека		747
4	German (de) British Library		728
5	Japanese (ja) 大英図書館		714
6	Chinese (zh) 大英图书馆		706
7	Spanish (es) British Library		564
8	French (fr) British Library		448
9	Italian (it) British Library		315
10	Arabic (ar) المكتبة البريطانية		170

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

Language versions of the article "British Library" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) British Library		527
2	German (de) British Library		171
3	French (fr) British Library		94
4	Italian (it) British Library		93
5	Russian (ru) Британская библиотека		63
6	Dutch (nl) British Library		51
7	Norwegian (no) British Library		49
8	Hebrew (he) הספרייה הבריטית		45
9	Spanish (es) British Library		42
10	Japanese (ja) 大英図書館		40

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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 "British Library" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Thai (th) หอสมุดบริติช		3
2	English (en) British Library		2
3	Catalan (ca) Biblioteca Britànica		1
4	Persian (fa) کتابخانه بریتانیا		1
5	Arabic (ar) المكتبة البريطانية		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Britaniya Milli Kitabxanası		0
7	Belarusian (be) Брытанская бібліятэка		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Британска библиотека		0
9	Czech (cs) Britská knihovna		0
10	Danish (da) British Library		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 "British Library" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) British Library		6 083
2	French (fr) British Library		1 548
3	German (de) British Library		869
4	Russian (ru) Британская библиотека		731
5	Spanish (es) British Library		687
6	Italian (it) British Library		649
7	Portuguese (pt) Biblioteca Britânica		379
8	Ukrainian (uk) Британська бібліотека		374
9	Arabic (ar) المكتبة البريطانية		361
10	Indonesian (id) Perpustakaan Britania		355

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic المكتبة البريطانية
az	Azerbaijani Britaniya Milli Kitabxanası
be	Belarusian Брытанская бібліятэка
bg	Bulgarian Британска библиотека
ca	Catalan Biblioteca Britànica
cs	Czech Britská knihovna
da	Danish British Library
de	German British Library
el	Greek Βρετανική Βιβλιοθήκη
en	English British Library
eo	Esperanto Brita Biblioteko
es	Spanish British Library
et	Estonian Briti Raamatukogu
eu	Basque British Library
fa	Persian کتابخانه بریتانیا
fi	Finnish British Library
fr	French British Library
gl	Galician British Library
he	Hebrew הספרייה הבריטית
hi	Hindi ब्रिटिश पुस्तकालय
hr	Croatian Britanska knjižnica
hu	Hungarian British Library
hy	Armenian Բրիտանական գրադարան
id	Indonesian Perpustakaan Britania
it	Italian British Library
ja	Japanese 大英図書館
kk	Kazakh Британдық кітапхана
ko	Korean 대영 도서관
la	Latin Bibliotheca Britannica
lt	Lithuanian Britų biblioteka
ms	Malay Perpustakaan British
nl	Dutch British Library
no	Norwegian British Library
pl	Polish Biblioteka Brytyjska
pt	Portuguese Biblioteca Britânica
ro	Romanian Biblioteca Britanică
ru	Russian Британская библиотека
simple	Simple English British Library
sl	Slovenian Britanska knjižnica
sr	Serbian Britanska biblioteka
sv	Swedish British Library
ta	Tamil பிரித்தானிய நூலகம்
th	Thai หอสมุดบริติช
tr	Turkish Britanya Kütüphanesi
uk	Ukrainian Британська бібліотека
ur	Urdu برٹش لائبریری
uz	Uzbek Britaniya kutubxonasi
vi	Vietnamese Thư viện Vương quốc Liên hiệp Anh
zh	Chinese 大英图书馆

Best Rank

English: #20873 06.2020

Global: #39323 06.2020

Best Rank

English: #794 09.2001

Global: #886 09.2001

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