Underground Railroad

Quality:

Underground Railroad - network of secret routes & safehouses in 19th-century U.S. used by slaves to find freedom. Article “Underground Railroad” in English Wikipedia has 81 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 297 references and 48 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 14.3 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Underground Railroad” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Underground Railroad”, its content was written by 1414 registered users of English Wikipedia (2844^th place) and edited by 2174 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3961 times in English Wikipedia (6953^rd place) and cited 7553 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #258 in December 2004
• Global: #1735 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #930 in May 2021
• Global: #2080 in May 2021

There are 35 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	Turkish (tr) Yeraltı Demiryolu		85.4526
2	Romanian (ro) Underground Railroad		81.2668
3	English (en) Underground Railroad		81.0237
4	Chinese (zh) 地下鐵路 (秘密結社)		68.1598
5	Catalan (ca) Ferrocarril Subterrani		66.8706
6	Spanish (es) Ferrocarril subterráneo		47.9277
7	Korean (ko) 지하철도 (비밀결사)		41.4791
8	German (de) Underground Railroad		41.3309
9	Finnish (fi) Underground Railroad		35.1743
10	French (fr) Chemin de fer clandestin		35.0387

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Underground Railroad		10 378 098
2	German (de) Underground Railroad		555 927
3	French (fr) Chemin de fer clandestin		429 342
4	Spanish (es) Ferrocarril subterráneo		302 727
5	Japanese (ja) 地下鉄道 (秘密結社)		240 722
6	Russian (ru) Подземная железная дорога		184 633
7	Italian (it) Ferrovia sotterranea		121 591
8	Chinese (zh) 地下鐵路 (秘密結社)		108 775
9	Dutch (nl) Underground Railroad		87 230
10	Hindi (hi) भूमिगत रेल		78 373

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) Underground Railroad		21 670
2	German (de) Underground Railroad		1 703
3	French (fr) Chemin de fer clandestin		972
4	Russian (ru) Подземная железная дорога		857
5	Japanese (ja) 地下鉄道 (秘密結社)		841
6	Italian (it) Ferrovia sotterranea		579
7	Spanish (es) Ferrocarril subterráneo		497
8	Chinese (zh) 地下鐵路 (秘密結社)		434
9	Dutch (nl) Underground Railroad		151
10	Polish (pl) Underground Railroad		136

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Underground Railroad		1 414
2	German (de) Underground Railroad		113
3	French (fr) Chemin de fer clandestin		112
4	Dutch (nl) Underground Railroad		52
5	Japanese (ja) 地下鉄道 (秘密結社)		50
6	Russian (ru) Подземная железная дорога		50
7	Italian (it) Ferrovia sotterranea		46
8	Hebrew (he) מסילת הרכבת המחתרתית		43
9	Chinese (zh) 地下鐵路 (秘密結社)		34
10	Hindi (hi) भूमिगत रेल		33

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) Underground Railroad		6
2	Catalan (ca) Ferrocarril Subterrani		1
3	Finnish (fi) Underground Railroad		1
4	Dutch (nl) Underground Railroad		1
5	Arabic (ar) سكة حديدية تحت الأرض		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Подземната железница		0
7	Czech (cs) Podzemní železnice		0
8	Danish (da) The Underground Railroad		0
9	German (de) Underground Railroad		0
10	Greek (el) Υπόγειος σιδηρόδρομος		0

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

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