Early world maps

Early world maps - list of early depictions of the world. Article “Early world maps” in English Wikipedia has 76.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 61 references and 57 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Early world maps”, its content was written by 290 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 624 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 146 times in English Wikipedia and cited 449 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #13284 in January 2017
• Global: #20439 in April 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10017 in January 2022
• Global: #22629 in January 2022

There are 15 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) Liste historischer Weltkarten		87.619
2	Slovenian (sl) Zgodnji zemljevidi sveta		80.6057
3	English (en) Early world maps		76.8292
4	Korean (ko) 초기의 세계 지도		75.748
5	Japanese (ja) 初期の世界地図		58.1287
6	Basque (eu) Lehen mundu mapak		55.0149
7	Catalan (ca) Mapamundis antics		52.4462
8	Chinese (zh) 早期世界地图		52.0849
9	Persian (fa) نقشه‌های کهن		47.5128
10	Spanish (es) Mapamundis antiguos		46.1388

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Early world maps" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Early world maps		4 151 126
2	Japanese (ja) 初期の世界地図		567 531
3	Spanish (es) Mapamundis antiguos		501 528
4	Portuguese (pt) História do mapa-múndi		319 756
5	French (fr) Mappemondes anciennes		313 887
6	Persian (fa) نقشه‌های کهن		138 914
7	Chinese (zh) 早期世界地图		138 700
8	German (de) Liste historischer Weltkarten		96 629
9	Catalan (ca) Mapamundis antics		14 641
10	Slovenian (sl) Zgodnji zemljevidi sveta		5 543

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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 "Early world maps" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Early world maps		22 069
2	Japanese (ja) 初期の世界地図		1 985
3	German (de) Liste historischer Weltkarten		1 255
4	Spanish (es) Mapamundis antiguos		1 152
5	Chinese (zh) 早期世界地图		842
6	French (fr) Mappemondes anciennes		775
7	Portuguese (pt) História do mapa-múndi		748
8	Persian (fa) نقشه‌های کهن		651
9	Arabic (ar) خرائط العالم المبكرة		236
10	Korean (ko) 초기의 세계 지도		99

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Early world maps		290
2	French (fr) Mappemondes anciennes		64
3	Spanish (es) Mapamundis antiguos		52
4	German (de) Liste historischer Weltkarten		48
5	Persian (fa) نقشه‌های کهن		44
6	Japanese (ja) 初期の世界地図		33
7	Portuguese (pt) História do mapa-múndi		22
8	Galician (gl) Mapamundis antigos		20
9	Catalan (ca) Mapamundis antics		19
10	Chinese (zh) 早期世界地图		17

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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 "Early world maps" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 初期の世界地図		1
2	Chinese (zh) 早期世界地图		1
3	Arabic (ar) خرائط العالم المبكرة		0
4	Catalan (ca) Mapamundis antics		0
5	German (de) Liste historischer Weltkarten		0
6	English (en) Early world maps		0
7	Spanish (es) Mapamundis antiguos		0
8	Basque (eu) Lehen mundu mapak		0
9	Persian (fa) نقشه‌های کهن		0
10	French (fr) Mappemondes anciennes		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 "Early world maps" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Early world maps		146
2	Portuguese (pt) História do mapa-múndi		81
3	French (fr) Mappemondes anciennes		51
4	Persian (fa) نقشه‌های کهن		34
5	Spanish (es) Mapamundis antiguos		32
6	Chinese (zh) 早期世界地图		31
7	Catalan (ca) Mapamundis antics		19
8	Japanese (ja) 初期の世界地図		19
9	Galician (gl) Mapamundis antigos		11
10	German (de) Liste historischer Weltkarten		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic خرائط العالم المبكرة
ca	Catalan Mapamundis antics
de	German Liste historischer Weltkarten
en	English Early world maps
es	Spanish Mapamundis antiguos
eu	Basque Lehen mundu mapak
fa	Persian نقشه‌های کهن
fr	French Mappemondes anciennes
gl	Galician Mapamundis antigos
ja	Japanese 初期の世界地図
ko	Korean 초기의 세계 지도
pt	Portuguese História do mapa-múndi
simple	Simple English Early world maps
sl	Slovenian Zgodnji zemljevidi sveta
zh	Chinese 早期世界地图

Best Rank

English: #10017 01.2022

Global: #22629 01.2022

Best Rank

English: #13284 01.2017

Global: #20439 04.2025

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