Chanakya

Quality:

Chanakya Kautilya - Ancient Indian teacher and strategist who authored the foundational manual on political economy.. This person is the 7499^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Chanakya” in Simple English Wikipedia has 37.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.99 points.

This article has the best quality in Esperanto 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 6342^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7499^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5300^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Chanakya”, its content was written by 32 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6342^nd place) and edited by 1552 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Chanakya Kautilya is on the 7499^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 100 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3768 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #230 in March 2022
• Global: #2244 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2551 in November 2015
• Global: #2268 in November 2015

There are 51 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	Esperanto (eo) Ĉanakja		83.3321
2	English (en) Chanakya		81.2175
3	Korean (ko) 차나키야		66.1616
4	Basque (eu) Chanakya		61.2506
5	Catalan (ca) Chanakya		60.512
6	Tamil (ta) சாணக்கியர்		54.7477
7	Chinese (zh) 考底利耶		53.8243
8	Portuguese (pt) Cautília		52.9665
9	Latin (la) Canakyus		52.2836
10	Armenian (hy) Չանակյա		51.0737

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chanakya		10 618 847
2	Hindi (hi) चाणक्य		2 088 441
3	Tamil (ta) சாணக்கியர்		150 511
4	Russian (ru) Чанакья		107 220
5	Spanish (es) Chanakia		89 669
6	Japanese (ja) カウティリヤ		68 120
7	Indonesian (id) Canakya		55 856
8	Chinese (zh) 考底利耶		43 182
9	Simple English (simple) Chanakya		37 311
10	Portuguese (pt) Cautília		35 961

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) Chanakya		21 975
2	Hindi (hi) चाणक्य		1 185
3	Tamil (ta) சாணக்கியர்		344
4	Spanish (es) Chanakia		318
5	Chinese (zh) 考底利耶		296
6	Simple English (simple) Chanakya		290
7	Russian (ru) Чанакья		270
8	Japanese (ja) カウティリヤ		253
9	French (fr) Vishnugupta Chânakya		144
10	Portuguese (pt) Cautília		125

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chanakya		538
2	Hindi (hi) चाणक्य		154
3	Russian (ru) Чанакья		64
4	German (de) Chanakya		52
5	French (fr) Vishnugupta Chânakya		51
6	Hungarian (hu) Kautilja		48
7	Dutch (nl) Chanakya		46
8	Italian (it) Cāṇakya		45
9	Vietnamese (vi) Chanakya		34
10	Simple English (simple) Chanakya		32

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	Azerbaijani (az) Çanakya		3
2	Arabic (ar) تشانكيا		1
3	English (en) Chanakya		1
4	Estonian (et) Tšānakja		1
5	Basque (eu) Chanakya		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Kautilja		1
7	Tamil (ta) சாணக்கியர்		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Чанак'я		1
9	Belarusian (be) Чанак’я		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Чанакя		0

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

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