Christopher Columbus

Quality:

Christopher Columbus - Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506). This person is the 69^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 218^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Christopher Columbus” in English Wikipedia has 98.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 432 references and 27 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 412^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 254^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 218^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 170^th most popular in all topics.

The 140^th most popular in AI.

The 69^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2094^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1141^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2107^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Christopher Columbus” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 44 authors in all languages (2107^th place).

Since the creation of article “Christopher Columbus”, its content was written by 2801 registered users of English Wikipedia (254^th place) and edited by 11417 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (140^th place).

Christopher Columbus is on the 218^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 69^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 3506 times in English Wikipedia (8449^th place) and cited 27495 times in all languages (6159^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in October 2002
• Global: #1 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #33 in October 2017
• Global: #27 in October 2017

There are 55 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	Tamil (ta) கிறித்தோபர் கொலம்பசு		100
2	Esperanto (eo) Kristoforo Kolumbo		100
3	Spanish (es) Cristóbal Colón		99.2516
4	English (en) Christopher Columbus		98.5757
5	Italian (it) Cristoforo Colombo		97.7429
6	Slovak (sk) Krištof Kolumbus		95.6522
7	Estonian (et) Christoph Kolumbus		95.5556
8	Korean (ko) 크리스토퍼 콜럼버스		95
9	Catalan (ca) Cristòfor Colom		95
10	Romanian (ro) Cristofor Columb		92.687

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Christopher Columbus		66 717 429
2	Spanish (es) Cristóbal Colón		39 155 563
3	French (fr) Christophe Colomb		15 030 729
4	German (de) Christoph Kolumbus		11 837 341
5	Russian (ru) Колумб, Христофор		9 792 484
6	Italian (it) Cristoforo Colombo		7 140 072
7	Polish (pl) Krzysztof Kolumb		5 339 086
8	Japanese (ja) クリストファー・コロンブス		5 086 113
9	Portuguese (pt) Cristóvão Colombo		4 600 395
10	Dutch (nl) Christoffel Columbus		3 205 817

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) Christopher Columbus		160 702
2	Spanish (es) Cristóbal Colón		38 932
3	French (fr) Christophe Colomb		32 547
4	German (de) Christoph Kolumbus		28 674
5	Russian (ru) Колумб, Христофор		18 352
6	Italian (it) Cristoforo Colombo		14 905
7	Japanese (ja) クリストファー・コロンブス		13 454
8	Portuguese (pt) Cristóvão Colombo		10 121
9	Polish (pl) Krzysztof Kolumb		9 828
10	Dutch (nl) Christoffel Columbus		7 058

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Christopher Columbus		2 801
2	German (de) Christoph Kolumbus		788
3	Italian (it) Cristoforo Colombo		701
4	French (fr) Christophe Colomb		650
5	Spanish (es) Cristóbal Colón		615
6	Russian (ru) Колумб, Христофор		452
7	Dutch (nl) Christoffel Columbus		358
8	Hebrew (he) כריסטופר קולומבוס		341
9	Portuguese (pt) Cristóvão Colombo		302
10	Polish (pl) Krzysztof Kolumb		287

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	Italian (it) Cristoforo Colombo		8
2	English (en) Christopher Columbus		5
3	Japanese (ja) クリストファー・コロンブス		4
4	Galician (gl) Cristovo Colón		3
5	Hebrew (he) כריסטופר קולומבוס		3
6	Catalan (ca) Cristòfor Colom		2
7	French (fr) Christophe Colomb		2
8	Lithuanian (lt) Kristupas Kolumbas		2
9	Arabic (ar) كريستوفر كولومبوس		1
10	German (de) Christoph Kolumbus		1

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

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