Cardinal direction

Quality:

Cardinal direction - one of directions of north, east, south, and west. Article “Cardinal direction” in English Wikipedia has 48.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 43 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.48 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5336^th most popular in all topics.

In June 2026 the article “Cardinal direction” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Cardinal direction”, its content was written by 457 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2061 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 971 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10849 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4953 in September 2008
• Global: #2297 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10867 in September 2014
• Global: #3163 in September 2018

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	Catalan (ca) Punt cardinal		70.0309
2	English (en) Cardinal direction		48.0695
3	Malay (ms) Mata angin		43.174
4	Vietnamese (vi) Phương hướng địa lý		41.1186
5	Hebrew (he) רוחות השמיים		40.9874
6	Chinese (zh) 方位		39.8506
7	Serbian (sr) Стране света		39.5354
8	Spanish (es) Punto cardinal		35.4203
9	Portuguese (pt) Ponto cardeal		28.1928
10	Persian (fa) جهت‌یابی		26.8315

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Punto cardinal		8 486 186
2	English (en) Cardinal direction		7 779 317
3	Japanese (ja) 方位		3 436 234
4	Polish (pl) Strony świata		3 024 476
5	Russian (ru) Стороны света		2 822 884
6	Portuguese (pt) Ponto cardeal		2 290 010
7	Indonesian (id) Mata angin		1 983 161
8	French (fr) Point cardinal		1 375 830
9	Italian (it) Punto cardinale		1 306 875
10	Persian (fa) جهت‌یابی		1 176 807

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) Cardinal direction		27 180
2	Indonesian (id) Mata angin		11 041
3	Spanish (es) Punto cardinal		8 614
4	Russian (ru) Стороны света		6 351
5	Japanese (ja) 方位		4 472
6	Persian (fa) جهت‌یابی		3 167
7	Portuguese (pt) Ponto cardeal		3 138
8	Turkish (tr) Yön		2 895
9	Thai (th) จุดทิศหลัก		2 643
10	French (fr) Point cardinal		2 598

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cardinal direction		457
2	Polish (pl) Strony świata		147
3	French (fr) Point cardinal		126
4	Spanish (es) Punto cardinal		118
5	Italian (it) Punto cardinale		95
6	Russian (ru) Стороны света		83
7	Dutch (nl) Windstreek		80
8	Japanese (ja) 方位		70
9	Swedish (sv) Väderstreck		66
10	Persian (fa) جهت‌یابی		65

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	Turkish (tr) Yön		3
2	Catalan (ca) Punt cardinal		1
3	English (en) Cardinal direction		1
4	Japanese (ja) 方位		1
5	Polish (pl) Strony świata		1
6	Arabic (ar) اتجاه سماوي		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Əsas səmtlər		0
8	Belarusian (be) Кірункі свету		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Географска посока		0
10	Czech (cs) Světová strana		0

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

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