Equator

Quality:

Equator - great circle that divides a spheroid into northern and southern hemispheres, particularly that line for the planet Earth. Article “Equator” in English Wikipedia has 55.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 11 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4457^th most popular in all topics.

The 5300^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Equator” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Equator”, its content was written by 629 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3495 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5300^th place).

The article is cited 2509 times in English Wikipedia and cited 30967 times in all languages (5491^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #129 in January 2002
• Global: #157 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3925 in June 2010
• Global: #2735 in September 2015

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	Chinese (zh) 赤道		73.5086
2	English (en) Equator		55.5924
3	French (fr) Équateur terrestre		44.4238
4	Malay (ms) Khatulistiwa		37.3753
5	Latin (la) Circulus aequinoctialis		35.3475
6	Russian (ru) Экватор		30.9466
7	Catalan (ca) Línia equatorial		30.3422
8	Finnish (fi) Päiväntasaaja		29.5009
9	Spanish (es) Ecuador terrestre		28.5846
10	Polish (pl) Równik		26.6323

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Equator		11 783 827
2	Spanish (es) Ecuador terrestre		5 094 441
3	German (de) Äquator		3 752 561
4	Russian (ru) Экватор		2 840 614
5	Portuguese (pt) Linha do equador		1 659 968
6	Japanese (ja) 赤道		1 557 447
7	Italian (it) Equatore		1 503 087
8	Arabic (ar) خط الاستواء		1 431 678
9	French (fr) Équateur terrestre		1 406 857
10	Polish (pl) Równik		1 286 617

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) Equator		27 221
2	German (de) Äquator		12 296
3	Spanish (es) Ecuador terrestre		6 022
4	Russian (ru) Экватор		5 634
5	French (fr) Équateur terrestre		3 829
6	Japanese (ja) 赤道		3 290
7	Turkish (tr) Ekvator		2 730
8	Chinese (zh) 赤道		2 431
9	Portuguese (pt) Linha do equador		1 946
10	Italian (it) Equatore		1 673

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Equator		629
2	German (de) Äquator		289
3	French (fr) Équateur terrestre		199
4	Spanish (es) Ecuador terrestre		191
5	Dutch (nl) Evenaar		165
6	Russian (ru) Экватор		134
7	Italian (it) Equatore		132
8	Turkish (tr) Ekvator		85
9	Hebrew (he) קו המשווה		82
10	Polish (pl) Równik		81

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	English (en) Equator		2
2	Spanish (es) Ecuador terrestre		2
3	Indonesian (id) Khatulistiwa		2
4	Vietnamese (vi) Xích đạo		2
5	Catalan (ca) Línia equatorial		1
6	Arabic (ar) خط الاستواء		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Ekvator		0
8	Belarusian (be) Экватар		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Екватор		0
10	Czech (cs) Rovník		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information