Cardinal direction

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Cardinal direction

Quality:

Cardinal direction - one of directions of north, east, south, and west. Article “Cardinal direction” in English Wikipedia has 51 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 43 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.67 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 5428th most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Cardinal direction”, its content was written by 450 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2022 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 973 times in English Wikipedia and cited 11227 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #4947 in September 2008
  • Global: #2572 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #10710 in September 2014
  • Global: #3188 in October 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, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

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

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Catalan (ca)
Punt cardinal
69.8743
2English (en)
Cardinal direction
51.041
3Malay (ms)
Mata angin
43.5189
4Vietnamese (vi)
Phương hướng địa lý
41.2863
5Serbian (sr)
Стране света
39.6044
6Hebrew (he)
רוחות השמיים
39.5117
7Spanish (es)
Punto cardinal
35.8046
8Portuguese (pt)
Ponto cardeal
28.24
9Japanese (ja)
方位
26.9959
10Swedish (sv)
Väderstreck
25.7069
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Cardinal direction" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Spanish (es)
Punto cardinal
8 458 158
2English (en)
Cardinal direction
7 460 829
3Japanese (ja)
方位
3 352 472
4Russian (ru)
Стороны света
2 494 585
5Portuguese (pt)
Ponto cardeal
2 246 399
6Polish (pl)
Strony świata
2 043 283
7Indonesian (id)
Mata angin
1 869 477
8French (fr)
Point cardinal
1 319 493
9Italian (it)
Punto cardinale
1 283 840
10Persian (fa)
جهت‌یابی
1 151 141
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Cardinal direction" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Cardinal direction
31 380
2Spanish (es)
Punto cardinal
13 166
3Russian (ru)
Стороны света
8 526
4Indonesian (id)
Mata angin
5 535
5Thai (th)
จุดทิศหลัก
3 856
6Japanese (ja)
方位
3 841
7Portuguese (pt)
Ponto cardeal
3 566
8French (fr)
Point cardinal
3 161
9Turkish (tr)
Yön
2 401
10Polish (pl)
Strony świata
2 218
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Cardinal direction" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Cardinal direction
450
2Polish (pl)
Strony świata
147
3French (fr)
Point cardinal
124
4Spanish (es)
Punto cardinal
115
5Italian (it)
Punto cardinale
94
6Russian (ru)
Стороны света
80
7Dutch (nl)
Windstreek
79
8Japanese (ja)
方位
68
9Persian (fa)
جهت‌یابی
64
10Swedish (sv)
Väderstreck
63
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Cardinal direction" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
اتجاه سماوي
3
2Slovak (sk)
Svetová strana
2
3Hebrew (he)
רוחות השמיים
1
4Russian (ru)
Стороны света
1
5Swedish (sv)
Väderstreck
1
6Azerbaijani (az)
Əsas səmtlər
0
7Belarusian (be)
Кірункі свету
0
8Bulgarian (bg)
Географска посока
0
9Catalan (ca)
Punt cardinal
0
10Czech (cs)
Světová strana
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Cardinal direction" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Polish (pl)
Strony świata
3 942
2English (en)
Cardinal direction
973
3Chinese (zh)
罗盘方位
604
4Japanese (ja)
方位
543
5Italian (it)
Punto cardinale
534
6French (fr)
Point cardinal
443
7Indonesian (id)
Mata angin
430
8Russian (ru)
Стороны света
411
9Spanish (es)
Punto cardinal
333
10Catalan (ca)
Punt cardinal
309
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اتجاه سماوي
azAzerbaijani
Əsas səmtlər
beBelarusian
Кірункі свету
bgBulgarian
Географска посока
caCatalan
Punt cardinal
csCzech
Světová strana
daDanish
Kompasretning
elGreek
Σημεία ορίζοντα
enEnglish
Cardinal direction
eoEsperanto
Kompasdirektoj
esSpanish
Punto cardinal
euBasque
Puntu kardinal
faPersian
جهت‌یابی
fiFinnish
Pääilmansuunnat
frFrench
Point cardinal
glGalician
Punto cardinal
heHebrew
רוחות השמיים
hiHindi
दिशा
hrCroatian
Strane svijeta
huHungarian
Égtáj
idIndonesian
Mata angin
itItalian
Punto cardinale
jaJapanese
方位
kaGeorgian
ჰორიზონტის მხარეები
kkKazakh
Көкжиек тұстары
koKorean
방위
laLatin
Regiones caeli
ltLithuanian
Pasaulio kryptis
msMalay
Mata angin
nlDutch
Windstreek
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Himmelretning
noNorwegian
Himmelretning
plPolish
Strony świata
ptPortuguese
Ponto cardeal
roRomanian
Punct cardinal
ruRussian
Стороны света
shSerbo-Croatian
Strane svijeta
simpleSimple English
Cardinal direction
skSlovak
Svetová strana
srSerbian
Стране света
svSwedish
Väderstreck
taTamil
நேர்திசை
thThai
จุดทิศหลัก
trTurkish
Yön
ukUkrainian
Сторони світу
urUrdu
سمت
uzUzbek
Dunyo tomonlari
viVietnamese
Phương hướng địa lý
zhChinese
罗盘方位
zhminnanMin Nan
Hong-ūi

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#10710
09.2014
Global:
#3188
10.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4947
09.2008
Global:
#2572
03.2012

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Cardinal direction from Wikipedia articles about North, Compass, Compass rose, East and Points of the compass. Whereas reading the article about Cardinal direction people most often go to Wikipedia articles on North, Compass rose, West, Compass and Points of the compass.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 方位
tr: Yön
ko: 방위
ur: سمت
zhminnan: Hong-ūi

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