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Great-circle navigation

Quality:

Great-circle navigation - Flight or sailing route along the shortest path between two points on a globe's surface. Article “Great-circle navigation” in English Wikipedia has 43.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Great-circle navigation”, its content was written by 52 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 191 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 55 times in English Wikipedia and cited 41396 times in all languages (3963rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #47712 in July 2013
  • Global: #41791 in March 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #133689 in August 2013
  • Global: #152919 in November 2014

There are 4 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
1English (en)
Great-circle navigation
43.0776
2Dutch (nl)
Grootcirkelnavigatie
22.6143
3French (fr)
Orthodromie
21.865
4Japanese (ja)
大圏コース
10.7922
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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 "Great-circle navigation" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Great-circle navigation
703 865
2French (fr)
Orthodromie
620 345
3Japanese (ja)
大圏コース
226 194
4Dutch (nl)
Grootcirkelnavigatie
33 801
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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 "Great-circle navigation" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Great-circle navigation
2 916
2French (fr)
Orthodromie
2 602
3Japanese (ja)
大圏コース
844
4Dutch (nl)
Grootcirkelnavigatie
89
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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 "Great-circle navigation" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
Orthodromie
96
2English (en)
Great-circle navigation
52
3Japanese (ja)
大圏コース
34
4Dutch (nl)
Grootcirkelnavigatie
9
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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 "Great-circle navigation" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
Orthodromie
1
2English (en)
Great-circle navigation
0
3Japanese (ja)
大圏コース
0
4Dutch (nl)
Grootcirkelnavigatie
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 "Great-circle navigation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Orthodromie
40 912
2Japanese (ja)
大圏コース
420
3English (en)
Great-circle navigation
55
4Dutch (nl)
Grootcirkelnavigatie
9
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Great-circle navigation
frFrench
Orthodromie
jaJapanese
大圏コース
nlDutch
Grootcirkelnavigatie

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#133689
08.2013
Global:
#152919
11.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#47712
07.2013
Global:
#41791
03.2024

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Great-circle navigation from Wikipedia articles about Longest flights, Transatlantic communications cable, Rhumb line, Jules Verne Trophy and Bangor. Whereas reading the article about Great-circle navigation people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Rhumb line, Great circle, Gnomonic projection, Geodesic curve and Spherical trigonometry.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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