Linia distanco

As the crow flies - idiom meaning the shortest distance between two points. Article “Linia distanco” in Esperanto Wikipedia has 0.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Esperanto) language version.

Since the creation of article “Linia distanco”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Esperanto Wikipedia and edited by 221 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 38 times in Esperanto Wikipedia and cited 9157 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Esperanto): #9402 in February 2025
• Global: #18014 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Esperanto): #17053 in July 2024
• Global: #94096 in December 2012

There are 12 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) As the crow flies		33.2793
2	German (de) Luftlinie		21.1504
3	Spanish (es) Distancia a vuelo de pájaro		17.4296
4	Arabic (ar) كما يطير الغراب		10.4814
5	Romanian (ro) Linie aeriană		9.0481
6	Malay (ms) Pada jarak terpendek antara dua titik		3.5474
7	Turkish (tr) Kuş uçuşu		2.8883
8	Vietnamese (vi) Đường chim bay		2.1292
9	Swedish (sv) Fågelvägen		1.2866
10	Esperanto (eo) Linia distanco		0.5856

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Linia distanco" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) As the crow flies		1 257 356
2	German (de) Luftlinie		156 223
3	Vietnamese (vi) Đường chim bay		48 081
4	Spanish (es) Distancia a vuelo de pájaro		16 442
5	Finnish (fi) Linnuntie		14 677
6	Swedish (sv) Fågelvägen		12 369
7	Danish (da) Fugleflugtslinje		6 060
8	Arabic (ar) كما يطير الغراب		3 825
9	Turkish (tr) Kuş uçuşu		2 045
10	Romanian (ro) Linie aeriană		2 020

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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 "Linia distanco" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) As the crow flies		5 672
2	German (de) Luftlinie		481
3	Vietnamese (vi) Đường chim bay		293
4	Romanian (ro) Linie aeriană		56
5	Turkish (tr) Kuş uçuşu		51
6	Finnish (fi) Linnuntie		47
7	Swedish (sv) Fågelvägen		47
8	Spanish (es) Distancia a vuelo de pájaro		41
9	Arabic (ar) كما يطير الغراب		30
10	Danish (da) Fugleflugtslinje		25

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) As the crow flies		106
2	German (de) Luftlinie		60
3	Finnish (fi) Linnuntie		13
4	Vietnamese (vi) Đường chim bay		12
5	Swedish (sv) Fågelvägen		8
6	Arabic (ar) كما يطير الغراب		6
7	Spanish (es) Distancia a vuelo de pájaro		6
8	Danish (da) Fugleflugtslinje		5
9	Romanian (ro) Linie aeriană		2
10	Esperanto (eo) Linia distanco		1

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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 "Linia distanco" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) كما يطير الغراب		0
2	Danish (da) Fugleflugtslinje		0
3	German (de) Luftlinie		0
4	English (en) As the crow flies		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Linia distanco		0
6	Spanish (es) Distancia a vuelo de pájaro		0
7	Finnish (fi) Linnuntie		0
8	Malay (ms) Pada jarak terpendek antara dua titik		0
9	Romanian (ro) Linie aeriană		0
10	Swedish (sv) Fågelvägen		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 "Linia distanco" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Luftlinie		8 589
2	English (en) As the crow flies		319
3	Romanian (ro) Linie aeriană		114
4	Finnish (fi) Linnuntie		42
5	Esperanto (eo) Linia distanco		38
6	Spanish (es) Distancia a vuelo de pájaro		19
7	Swedish (sv) Fågelvägen		12
8	Vietnamese (vi) Đường chim bay		11
9	Arabic (ar) كما يطير الغراب		5
10	Danish (da) Fugleflugtslinje		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic كما يطير الغراب
da	Danish Fugleflugtslinje
de	German Luftlinie
en	English As the crow flies
eo	Esperanto Linia distanco
es	Spanish Distancia a vuelo de pájaro
fi	Finnish Linnuntie
ms	Malay Pada jarak terpendek antara dua titik
ro	Romanian Linie aeriană
sv	Swedish Fågelvägen
tr	Turkish Kuş uçuşu
vi	Vietnamese Đường chim bay

Best Rank

Esperanto: #17053 07.2024

Global: #94096 12.2012

Best Rank

Esperanto: #9402 02.2025

Global: #18014 02.2004

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