Astronomical unit

Quality:

Astronomical unit - mean distance between Earth and the Sun, common length reference in astronomy. Article “Astronomical unit” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9743^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 8561^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8217^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6525^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Astronomical unit”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8561^st place) and edited by 2829 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8217^th place).

The article is cited 208 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 368571 times in all languages (257^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #715 in August 2009
• Global: #83 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1014 in April 2019
• Global: #6178 in July 2015

There are 54 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	Chinese (zh) 天文單位		74.1979
2	English (en) Astronomical unit		66.5615
3	German (de) Astronomische Einheit		59.9533
4	Portuguese (pt) Unidade astronômica		50.7965
5	Vietnamese (vi) Đơn vị thiên văn		46.3182
6	Swedish (sv) Astronomisk enhet		45.9288
7	Catalan (ca) Unitat astronòmica		44.9662
8	Russian (ru) Астрономическая единица		34.4562
9	French (fr) Unité astronomique		32.8113
10	Japanese (ja) 天文単位		31.8817

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Astronomical unit		8 737 343
2	Spanish (es) Unidad astronómica		2 670 117
3	Russian (ru) Астрономическая единица		1 964 363
4	German (de) Astronomische Einheit		1 956 511
5	French (fr) Unité astronomique		1 428 774
6	Japanese (ja) 天文単位		1 215 279
7	Italian (it) Unità astronomica		1 056 266
8	Polish (pl) Jednostka astronomiczna		1 040 947
9	Portuguese (pt) Unidade astronômica		656 851
10	Chinese (zh) 天文單位		529 197

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) Astronomical unit		18 722
2	German (de) Astronomische Einheit		4 042
3	Russian (ru) Астрономическая единица		3 535
4	French (fr) Unité astronomique		3 041
5	Spanish (es) Unidad astronómica		2 732
6	Japanese (ja) 天文単位		2 485
7	Italian (it) Unità astronomica		2 348
8	Polish (pl) Jednostka astronomiczna		1 566
9	Chinese (zh) 天文單位		1 214
10	Persian (fa) واحد نجومی		1 119

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Astronomical unit		579
2	German (de) Astronomische Einheit		215
3	French (fr) Unité astronomique		194
4	Spanish (es) Unidad astronómica		141
5	Italian (it) Unità astronomica		135
6	Russian (ru) Астрономическая единица		115
7	Dutch (nl) Astronomische eenheid		96
8	Polish (pl) Jednostka astronomiczna		70
9	Chinese (zh) 天文單位		68
10	Hungarian (hu) Csillagászati egység		66

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) Astronomical unit		3
2	Persian (fa) واحد نجومی		2
3	Polish (pl) Jednostka astronomiczna		2
4	Arabic (ar) وحدة فلكية		1
5	Catalan (ca) Unitat astronòmica		1
6	German (de) Astronomische Einheit		1
7	Spanish (es) Unidad astronómica		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Astronomik vahid		0
9	Belarusian (be) Астранамічная адзінка		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Астрономическа единица		0

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

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