British Library

British Library - national library of the United Kingdom. This building is the 626^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 520^th most popular building in English Wikipedia. Article “British Library” in English Wikipedia has 94.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 150 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 2026 the article “British Library” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “British Library”, its content was written by 544 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1683 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

British Library is on the 520^th place in local ranking of buildings in English Wikipedia and on the 626^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 6371 times in English Wikipedia (3552^nd place) and cited 17560 times in all languages (9892^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #799 in September 2001
• Global: #891 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #20940 in June 2020
• Global: #39364 in June 2020

There are 50 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	German (de) British Library		98.0561
2	Korean (ko) 대영 도서관		95.6823
3	Catalan (ca) Biblioteca Britànica		95.4472
4	English (en) British Library		94.6656
5	Thai (th) หอสมุดบริติช		70.5698
6	Chinese (zh) 大英图书馆		68.8444
7	Slovenian (sl) Britanska knjižnica		62.5557
8	Indonesian (id) Perpustakaan Britania		49.9581
9	Spanish (es) British Library		47.8321
10	French (fr) British Library		47.0823

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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		3 350 749
2	German (de) British Library		353 946
3	Russian (ru) Британская библиотека		281 932
4	Japanese (ja) 大英図書館		244 511
5	Spanish (es) British Library		204 448
6	French (fr) British Library		171 076
7	Italian (it) British Library		159 229
8	Chinese (zh) 大英图书馆		158 733
9	Polish (pl) Biblioteka Brytyjska		89 069
10	Arabic (ar) المكتبة البريطانية		78 377

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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 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) British Library		9 092
2	Japanese (ja) 大英図書館		732
3	German (de) British Library		658
4	Chinese (zh) 大英图书馆		538
5	French (fr) British Library		460
6	Russian (ru) Британская библиотека		432
7	Spanish (es) British Library		344
8	Italian (it) British Library		240
9	Persian (fa) کتابخانه بریتانیا		156
10	Portuguese (pt) Biblioteca Britânica		114

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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		544
2	German (de) British Library		174
3	French (fr) British Library		99
4	Italian (it) British Library		96
5	Russian (ru) Британская библиотека		63
6	Dutch (nl) British Library		51
7	Hebrew (he) הספרייה הבריטית		48
8	Japanese (ja) 大英図書館		43
9	Spanish (es) British Library		42
10	Chinese (zh) 大英图书馆		36

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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 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) British Library		3
2	Korean (ko) 대영 도서관		2
3	Arabic (ar) المكتبة البريطانية		1
4	Catalan (ca) Biblioteca Britànica		1
5	Finnish (fi) British Library		1
6	Croatian (hr) Britanska knjižnica		1
7	Italian (it) British Library		1
8	Chinese (zh) 大英图书馆		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Britaniya Milli Kitabxanası		0
10	Belarusian (be) Брытанская бібліятэка		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		6 371
2	French (fr) British Library		1 641
3	German (de) British Library		917
4	Russian (ru) Британская библиотека		760
5	Spanish (es) British Library		718
6	Italian (it) British Library		689
7	Ukrainian (uk) Британська бібліотека		433
8	Portuguese (pt) Biblioteca Britânica		418
9	Arabic (ar) المكتبة البريطانية		391
10	Indonesian (id) Perpustakaan Britania		370

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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
ka	Georgian ბრიტანეთის ბიბლიოთეკა
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: #20940 06.2020

Global: #39364 06.2020

Best Rank

English: #799 09.2001

Global: #891 09.2001

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