Natural History (Pliny)

Natural History - Encyclopedia published circa AD 77–79 by Pliny the Elder. This book is the 1149^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Natural History (Pliny)” in English Wikipedia has 99.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 184 references and 35 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Natural History (Pliny)” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Natural History (Pliny)”, its content was written by 269 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1065 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Natural History is on the 1149^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 2205 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12313 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6463 in August 2002
• Global: #7570 in June 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #15781 in January 2013
• Global: #27656 in January 2013

There are 33 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	Turkish (tr) Doğa Tarihi		100
2	English (en) Natural History (Pliny)		99.0541
3	Chinese (zh) 博物志 (老普林尼)		98.9492
4	Hebrew (he) תולדות הטבע		67.3661
5	Latin (la) Naturalis historia (Plinius)		57.1164
6	German (de) Naturalis historia		52.5009
7	Ukrainian (uk) Природнича історія (Пліній)		51.2956
8	Russian (ru) Естественная история (Плиний)		46.2716
9	Malay (ms) Naturalis Historia		35.6695
10	French (fr) Histoire naturelle (Pline l'Ancien)		33.2307

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Natural History (Pliny)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Natural History (Pliny)		2 094 830
2	Italian (it) Naturalis historia		504 275
3	Spanish (es) Historia natural (obra de Plinio)		386 942
4	German (de) Naturalis historia		345 425
5	French (fr) Histoire naturelle (Pline l'Ancien)		261 849
6	Japanese (ja) 博物誌		250 397
7	Russian (ru) Естественная история (Плиний)		229 139
8	Dutch (nl) Naturalis historia		83 211
9	Portuguese (pt) História Natural (Plínio)		79 192
10	Chinese (zh) 博物志 (老普林尼)		59 377

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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 "Natural History (Pliny)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Natural History (Pliny)		11 722
2	Italian (it) Naturalis historia		2 198
3	German (de) Naturalis historia		1 382
4	Spanish (es) Historia natural (obra de Plinio)		1 191
5	Japanese (ja) 博物誌		1 120
6	Russian (ru) Естественная история (Плиний)		950
7	French (fr) Histoire naturelle (Pline l'Ancien)		814
8	Chinese (zh) 博物志 (老普林尼)		521
9	Portuguese (pt) História Natural (Plínio)		334
10	Dutch (nl) Naturalis historia		270

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

Language versions of the article "Natural History (Pliny)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Natural History (Pliny)		269
2	German (de) Naturalis historia		95
3	Italian (it) Naturalis historia		95
4	French (fr) Histoire naturelle (Pline l'Ancien)		72
5	Spanish (es) Historia natural (obra de Plinio)		61
6	Dutch (nl) Naturalis historia		55
7	Russian (ru) Естественная история (Плиний)		51
8	Hebrew (he) תולדות הטבע		37
9	Norwegian (no) Naturalis Historia		37
10	Japanese (ja) 博物誌		35

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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 "Natural History (Pliny)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Natural History (Pliny)		9
2	Arabic (ar) التاريخ الطبيعي (موسوعة)		1
3	Russian (ru) Естественная история (Плиний)		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Естествена история		0
5	Catalan (ca) Naturalis Historia		0
6	Czech (cs) Naturalis historia		0
7	Danish (da) Naturalis Historia		0
8	German (de) Naturalis historia		0
9	Greek (el) Φυσική Ιστορία (Πλίνιος)		0
10	Spanish (es) Historia natural (obra de Plinio)		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 "Natural History (Pliny)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Natural History (Pliny)		2 205
2	German (de) Naturalis historia		1 634
3	Italian (it) Naturalis historia		1 307
4	Spanish (es) Historia natural (obra de Plinio)		1 161
5	French (fr) Histoire naturelle (Pline l'Ancien)		1 136
6	Catalan (ca) Naturalis Historia		713
7	Latin (la) Naturalis historia (Plinius)		670
8	Portuguese (pt) História Natural (Plínio)		454
9	Russian (ru) Естественная история (Плиний)		433
10	Japanese (ja) 博物誌		371

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic التاريخ الطبيعي (موسوعة)
bg	Bulgarian Естествена история
ca	Catalan Naturalis Historia
cs	Czech Naturalis historia
da	Danish Naturalis Historia
de	German Naturalis historia
el	Greek Φυσική Ιστορία (Πλίνιος)
en	English Natural History (Pliny)
es	Spanish Historia natural (obra de Plinio)
eu	Basque Natur Historia (Plinio)
fa	Persian تاریخ طبیعی (پلینی)
fi	Finnish Naturalis historia
fr	French Histoire naturelle (Pline l'Ancien)
gl	Galician Naturalis Historia
he	Hebrew תולדות הטבע
id	Indonesian Naturalis Historia
it	Italian Naturalis historia
ja	Japanese 博物誌
ka	Georgian ბუნების ისტორია (პლინიუსი)
ko	Korean 박물지
la	Latin Naturalis historia (Plinius)
ms	Malay Naturalis Historia
nl	Dutch Naturalis historia
no	Norwegian Naturalis Historia
pl	Polish Historia naturalna (encyklopedia)
pt	Portuguese História Natural (Plínio)
ro	Romanian Naturalis Historia
ru	Russian Естественная история (Плиний)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Naturalis historia
sv	Swedish Naturalis Historia
tr	Turkish Doğa Tarihi
uk	Ukrainian Природнича історія (Пліній)
zh	Chinese 博物志 (老普林尼)

Best Rank

English: #15781 01.2013

Global: #27656 01.2013

Best Rank

English: #6463 08.2002

Global: #7570 06.2012

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