Vredefort impact structure

Vredefort crater - largest verified impact crater on earth, dating from the Paleoproterozoic Era. Article "Vredefort impact structure" in English Wikipedia has 53.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 29 references and 6 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Vredefort impact structure" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Vredefort impact structure", its content was written by 180 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 779 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1775 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2700 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5796 in July 2022
• Global: #10899 in November 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #23004 in February 2013
• Global: #17057 in February 2013

There are 38 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	English (en) Vredefort impact structure		53.7694
2	Spanish (es) Cráter de Vredefort		44.1533
3	Chinese (zh) 弗里德堡隕石坑		29.6282
4	Arabic (ar) فوهة فريديفورت		28.5639
5	Croatian (hr) Krater Vredefort		28.3155
6	Polish (pl) Vredefort (krater)		27.9403
7	Ukrainian (uk) Вредефорт (кратер)		27.5861
8	German (de) Vredefort-Krater		27.5089
9	Lithuanian (lt) Fredeforto krateris		27.2873
10	Finnish (fi) Vredefort-kraatteri		26.6158

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Vredefort impact structure" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Vredefort impact structure		3 123 821
2	Japanese (ja) フレデフォート・ドーム		848 805
3	Russian (ru) Вредефорт (кратер)		379 873
4	German (de) Vredefort-Krater		376 334
5	Spanish (es) Cráter de Vredefort		162 875
6	French (fr) Dôme de Vredefort		151 001
7	Italian (it) Cratere di Vredefort		94 754
8	Polish (pl) Vredefort (krater)		88 118
9	Chinese (zh) 弗里德堡隕石坑		74 056
10	Portuguese (pt) Cratera de Vredefort		59 701

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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 "Vredefort impact structure" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Vredefort impact structure		21 445
2	Japanese (ja) フレデフォート・ドーム		2 837
3	Russian (ru) Вредефорт (кратер)		2 144
4	German (de) Vredefort-Krater		1 504
5	Chinese (zh) 弗里德堡隕石坑		697
6	French (fr) Dôme de Vredefort		696
7	Spanish (es) Cráter de Vredefort		652
8	Simple English (simple) Vredefort crater		636
9	Italian (it) Cratere di Vredefort		441
10	Polish (pl) Vredefort (krater)		301

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

Language versions of the article "Vredefort impact structure" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Vredefort impact structure		180
2	German (de) Vredefort-Krater		74
3	French (fr) Dôme de Vredefort		61
4	Dutch (nl) Vredefortkrater		39
5	Italian (it) Cratere di Vredefort		36
6	Portuguese (pt) Cratera de Vredefort		34
7	Russian (ru) Вредефорт (кратер)		34
8	Spanish (es) Cráter de Vredefort		26
9	Japanese (ja) フレデフォート・ドーム		26
10	Norwegian (no) Vredefort-krateret		25

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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 "Vredefort impact structure" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Vredefort impact structure		1
2	Arabic (ar) فوهة فريديفورت		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Vredefort krateri		0
4	Catalan (ca) Cràter de Vredefort		0
5	Czech (cs) Vredefort (kráter)		0
6	Danish (da) Vredefort-krateret		0
7	German (de) Vredefort-Krater		0
8	Greek (el) Κρατήρας Βρέντεφορντ		0
9	Spanish (es) Cráter de Vredefort		0
10	Basque (eu) Vredeforteko kraterra		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 "Vredefort impact structure" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Vredefort impact structure		1 775
2	French (fr) Dôme de Vredefort		113
3	Russian (ru) Вредефорт (кратер)		93
4	Ukrainian (uk) Вредефорт (кратер)		91
5	Portuguese (pt) Cratera de Vredefort		65
6	Chinese (zh) 弗里德堡隕石坑		63
7	Persian (fa) دهانه وردفرت		56
8	Arabic (ar) فوهة فريديفورت		39
9	German (de) Vredefort-Krater		33
10	Japanese (ja) フレデフォート・ドーム		32

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فوهة فريديفورت
az	Azerbaijani Vredefort krateri
ca	Catalan Cràter de Vredefort
cs	Czech Vredefort (kráter)
da	Danish Vredefort-krateret
de	German Vredefort-Krater
el	Greek Κρατήρας Βρέντεφορντ
en	English Vredefort impact structure
es	Spanish Cráter de Vredefort
eu	Basque Vredeforteko kraterra
fa	Persian دهانه وردفرت
fi	Finnish Vredefort-kraatteri
fr	French Dôme de Vredefort
he	Hebrew מכתש פרדפורט
hi	Hindi व्रेडेफोर्ट गुम्बज
hr	Croatian Krater Vredefort
hu	Hungarian Vredefort-kráter
id	Indonesian Kawah Vredefort
it	Italian Cratere di Vredefort
ja	Japanese フレデフォート・ドーム
ka	Georgian ვრედეფორტის კრატერი
lt	Lithuanian Fredeforto krateris
nl	Dutch Vredefortkrater
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Vredefortkrateret
no	Norwegian Vredefort-krateret
pl	Polish Vredefort (krater)
pt	Portuguese Cratera de Vredefort
ro	Romanian Craterul Vredefort
ru	Russian Вредефорт (кратер)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Vredefort krater
simple	Simple English Vredefort crater
sk	Slovak Vredefort (kráter)
sv	Swedish Vredefortkratern
th	Thai หลุมอุกกาบาตเฟรเดอฟอร์ต
tr	Turkish Vredefort Kubbesi
uk	Ukrainian Вредефорт (кратер)
vi	Vietnamese Hố va chạm Vredefort
zh	Chinese 弗里德堡隕石坑

Best Rank

English: #23004 02.2013

Global: #17057 02.2013

Best Rank

English: #5796 07.2022

Global: #10899 11.2011

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