High-voltage direct current

High-voltage direct current power line - electric power transmission system. Article "High-voltage direct current" in English Wikipedia has 77.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 65 references and 32 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "High-voltage direct current" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "High-voltage direct current", its content was written by 425 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1238 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 973 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2861 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #979 in March 2005
• Global: #2044 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #21141 in February 2015
• Global: #22923 in February 2015

There are 31 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	French (fr) Courant continu haute tension		100
2	Greek (el) Συνεχές ρεύμα υψηλής τάσης		77.8966
3	English (en) High-voltage direct current		77.4583
4	German (de) Hochspannungs-Gleichstrom-Übertragung		77.3189
5	Ukrainian (uk) Високовольтна лінія постійного струму		68.9316
6	Turkish (tr) Yüksek voltajlı doğru akım		61.1507
7	Thai (th) ระบบสายส่งกระแสตรงความดันสูง		55.6808
8	Simple English (simple) High-voltage direct current		45.911
9	Japanese (ja) 直流送電		42.6457
10	Russian (ru) Высоковольтная линия постоянного тока		35.1314

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

The most popular language versions of the article "High-voltage direct current" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) High-voltage direct current		4 127 799
2	German (de) Hochspannungs-Gleichstrom-Übertragung		1 578 231
3	Japanese (ja) 直流送電		552 308
4	Russian (ru) Высоковольтная линия постоянного тока		471 140
5	French (fr) Courant continu haute tension		429 338
6	Polish (pl) Linia wysokiego napięcia prądu stałego		213 728
7	Spanish (es) Corriente continua de alta tensión		181 803
8	Portuguese (pt) Corrente contínua em alta tensão		179 415
9	Chinese (zh) 高壓直流輸電		175 386
10	Romanian (ro) Linie de înaltă tensiune în curent continuu		141 584

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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 "High-voltage direct current" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) High-voltage direct current		12 080
2	German (de) Hochspannungs-Gleichstrom-Übertragung		4 812
3	French (fr) Courant continu haute tension		1 051
4	Japanese (ja) 直流送電		951
5	Russian (ru) Высоковольтная линия постоянного тока		849
6	Chinese (zh) 高壓直流輸電		843
7	Korean (ko) 초고압직류송전		486
8	Polish (pl) Linia wysokiego napięcia prądu stałego		484
9	Spanish (es) Corriente continua de alta tensión		379
10	Italian (it) Corrente continua ad alta tensione		319

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

Language versions of the article "High-voltage direct current" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) High-voltage direct current		425
2	German (de) Hochspannungs-Gleichstrom-Übertragung		279
3	French (fr) Courant continu haute tension		121
4	Japanese (ja) 直流送電		48
5	Dutch (nl) Hoogspanningsgelijkstroom		48
6	Russian (ru) Высоковольтная линия постоянного тока		40
7	Swedish (sv) Högspänd likström		31
8	Italian (it) Corrente continua ad alta tensione		28
9	Polish (pl) Linia wysokiego napięcia prądu stałego		26
10	Persian (fa) جریان مستقیم ولتاژ بالا		24

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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 "High-voltage direct current" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) High-voltage direct current		3
2	German (de) Hochspannungs-Gleichstrom-Übertragung		1
3	Greek (el) Συνεχές ρεύμα υψηλής τάσης		1
4	Swedish (sv) Högspänd likström		1
5	Thai (th) ระบบสายส่งกระแสตรงความดันสูง		1
6	Arabic (ar) تيار الجهد العالي المستمر		0
7	Catalan (ca) Corrent continu d'alta tensió		0
8	Czech (cs) Stejnosměrný proud o vysokém napětí		0
9	Danish (da) HVDC		0
10	Spanish (es) Corriente continua de alta tensión		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 "High-voltage direct current" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) High-voltage direct current		973
2	German (de) Hochspannungs-Gleichstrom-Übertragung		336
3	French (fr) Courant continu haute tension		319
4	Arabic (ar) تيار الجهد العالي المستمر		259
5	Japanese (ja) 直流送電		172
6	Chinese (zh) 高壓直流輸電		158
7	Persian (fa) جریان مستقیم ولتاژ بالا		139
8	Russian (ru) Высоковольтная линия постоянного тока		55
9	Italian (it) Corrente continua ad alta tensione		54
10	Swedish (sv) Högspänd likström		47

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تيار الجهد العالي المستمر
ca	Catalan Corrent continu d'alta tensió
cs	Czech Stejnosměrný proud o vysokém napětí
da	Danish HVDC
de	German Hochspannungs-Gleichstrom-Übertragung
el	Greek Συνεχές ρεύμα υψηλής τάσης
en	English High-voltage direct current
es	Spanish Corriente continua de alta tensión
et	Estonian Alalisvooluühendus
fa	Persian جریان مستقیم ولتاژ بالا
fi	Finnish Suurjännitetasavirta
fr	French Courant continu haute tension
hi	Hindi उच्च-वोल्टता डीसी पारेषण
hr	Croatian Visokonaponska istosmjerna struja
hu	Hungarian Nagyfeszültségű egyenáramú átviteli hálózat
it	Italian Corrente continua ad alta tensione
ja	Japanese 直流送電
ko	Korean 초고압직류송전
nl	Dutch Hoogspanningsgelijkstroom
no	Norwegian Høyspent likestrømsoverføring
pl	Polish Linia wysokiego napięcia prądu stałego
pt	Portuguese Corrente contínua em alta tensão
ro	Romanian Linie de înaltă tensiune în curent continuu
ru	Russian Высоковольтная линия постоянного тока
simple	Simple English High-voltage direct current
sr	Serbian Високонапонска једносмерна струја
sv	Swedish Högspänd likström
th	Thai ระบบสายส่งกระแสตรงความดันสูง
tr	Turkish Yüksek voltajlı doğru akım
uk	Ukrainian Високовольтна лінія постійного струму
zh	Chinese 高壓直流輸電

Best Rank

English: #21141 02.2015

Global: #22923 02.2015

Best Rank

English: #979 03.2005

Global: #2044 03.2005

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