The Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Would Be King - novella by Rudyard Kipling. This book is the 2358^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Man Who Would Be King” in Spanish Wikipedia has 13.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Man Who Would Be King”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 353 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Man Who Would Be King is on the 2358^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 5 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 361 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #25751 in September 2022
• Global: #1575 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #131185 in October 2024
• Global: #63388 in January 2011

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) The Man Who Would Be King		62.0013
2	French (fr) L'Homme qui voulut être roi (nouvelle)		40.3255
3	German (de) Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Erzählung)		31.0541
4	Greek (el) Ο άνθρωπος που θα γινόταν βασιλιάς (βιβλίο)		28.2825
5	Italian (it) L'uomo che volle essere re		19.6395
6	Arabic (ar) الرجل الذي سيصبح ملكا		14.2814
7	Basque (eu) Errege izatekoa zen gizona		13.9425
8	Spanish (es) The Man Who Would Be King		13.3409
9	Romanian (ro) Omul care voia să fie rege		11.2975
10	Japanese (ja) 王になろうとした男		10.643

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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 Man Who Would Be King" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Man Who Would Be King		1 977 821
2	Italian (it) L'uomo che volle essere re		105 360
3	Japanese (ja) 王になろうとした男		74 254
4	German (de) Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Erzählung)		70 933
5	French (fr) L'Homme qui voulut être roi (nouvelle)		53 445
6	Spanish (es) The Man Who Would Be King		14 909
7	Arabic (ar) الرجل الذي سيصبح ملكا		9 098
8	Greek (el) Ο άνθρωπος που θα γινόταν βασιλιάς (βιβλίο)		7 786
9	Romanian (ro) Omul care voia să fie rege		1 548
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Man Who Would Be King (priča)		367

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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 Man Who Would Be King" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Man Who Would Be King		6 607
2	Italian (it) L'uomo che volle essere re		530
3	French (fr) L'Homme qui voulut être roi (nouvelle)		474
4	Spanish (es) The Man Who Would Be King		216
5	German (de) Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Erzählung)		172
6	Japanese (ja) 王になろうとした男		130
7	Arabic (ar) الرجل الذي سيصبح ملكا		47
8	Greek (el) Ο άνθρωπος που θα γινόταν βασιλιάς (βιβλίο)		26
9	Romanian (ro) Omul care voia să fie rege		17
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Man Who Would Be King (priča)		9

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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 Man Who Would Be King" 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 Man Who Would Be King		217
2	Italian (it) L'uomo che volle essere re		38
3	German (de) Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Erzählung)		30
4	French (fr) L'Homme qui voulut être roi (nouvelle)		30
5	Japanese (ja) 王になろうとした男		13
6	Greek (el) Ο άνθρωπος που θα γινόταν βασιλιάς (βιβλίο)		8
7	Arabic (ar) الرجل الذي سيصبح ملكا		5
8	Swedish (sv) Mannen som ville bli kung (roman)		5
9	Spanish (es) The Man Who Would Be King		2
10	Basque (eu) Errege izatekoa zen gizona		2

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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 Man Who Would Be King" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Man Who Would Be King		1
2	French (fr) L'Homme qui voulut être roi (nouvelle)		1
3	Arabic (ar) الرجل الذي سيصبح ملكا		0
4	German (de) Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Erzählung)		0
5	Greek (el) Ο άνθρωπος που θα γινόταν βασιλιάς (βιβλίο)		0
6	Spanish (es) The Man Who Would Be King		0
7	Basque (eu) Errege izatekoa zen gizona		0
8	Italian (it) L'uomo che volle essere re		0
9	Japanese (ja) 王になろうとした男		0
10	Romanian (ro) Omul care voia să fie rege		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 Man Who Would Be King" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Man Who Would Be King		210
2	French (fr) L'Homme qui voulut être roi (nouvelle)		48
3	Italian (it) L'uomo che volle essere re		38
4	Romanian (ro) Omul care voia să fie rege		20
5	Japanese (ja) 王になろうとした男		13
6	German (de) Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Erzählung)		11
7	Greek (el) Ο άνθρωπος που θα γινόταν βασιλιάς (βιβλίο)		5
8	Spanish (es) The Man Who Would Be King		5
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Man Who Would Be King (priča)		5
10	Basque (eu) Errege izatekoa zen gizona		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الرجل الذي سيصبح ملكا
de	German Der Mann, der König sein wollte (Erzählung)
el	Greek Ο άνθρωπος που θα γινόταν βασιλιάς (βιβλίο)
en	English The Man Who Would Be King
es	Spanish The Man Who Would Be King
eu	Basque Errege izatekoa zen gizona
fr	French L'Homme qui voulut être roi (nouvelle)
it	Italian L'uomo che volle essere re
ja	Japanese 王になろうとした男
ro	Romanian Omul care voia să fie rege
sh	Serbo-Croatian The Man Who Would Be King (priča)
sv	Swedish Mannen som ville bli kung (roman)

Best Rank

Spanish: #131185 10.2024

Global: #63388 01.2011

Best Rank

Spanish: #25751 09.2022

Global: #1575 08.2002

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