The Book of Sand

The Book of Sand - short story by Jorge Luis Borges. This book is the 8056^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Book of Sand” in English Wikipedia has 23.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Book of Sand”, its content was written by 67 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 90 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Book of Sand is on the 8056^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 80 times in English Wikipedia and cited 95 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #20121 in December 2003
• Global: #38899 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #197902 in August 2011
• Global: #267298 in August 2011

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Greek (el) Το βιβλίο της άμμου (διήγημα)		25.4929
2	English (en) The Book of Sand		23.3731
3	Arabic (ar) كتاب الرمل (قصة)		9.9002
4	Spanish (es) El libro de arena (cuento)		3.8839

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Book of Sand" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Book of Sand		370 121
2	Spanish (es) El libro de arena (cuento)		246 210
3	Arabic (ar) كتاب الرمل (قصة)		13 862
4	Greek (el) Το βιβλίο της άμμου (διήγημα)		1 718

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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 "The Book of Sand" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Book of Sand		1 178
2	Spanish (es) El libro de arena (cuento)		249
3	Greek (el) Το βιβλίο της άμμου (διήγημα)		20
4	Arabic (ar) كتاب الرمل (قصة)		19

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

Language versions of the article "The Book of Sand" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Book of Sand		67
2	Spanish (es) El libro de arena (cuento)		13
3	Greek (el) Το βιβλίο της άμμου (διήγημα)		6
4	Arabic (ar) كتاب الرمل (قصة)		4

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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 "The Book of Sand" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) كتاب الرمل (قصة)		0
2	Greek (el) Το βιβλίο της άμμου (διήγημα)		0
3	English (en) The Book of Sand		0
4	Spanish (es) El libro de arena (cuento)		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 "The Book of Sand" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Book of Sand		80
2	Greek (el) Το βιβλίο της άμμου (διήγημα)		11
3	Spanish (es) El libro de arena (cuento)		3
4	Arabic (ar) كتاب الرمل (قصة)		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic كتاب الرمل (قصة)
el	Greek Το βιβλίο της άμμου (διήγημα)
en	English The Book of Sand
es	Spanish El libro de arena (cuento)

Best Rank

English: #197902 08.2011

Global: #267298 08.2011

Best Rank

English: #20121 12.2003

Global: #38899 12.2003

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