Christopher Columbus

Quality:

Christopher Columbus - Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506). This person is the 67^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 64^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Christopher Columbus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 74.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 14 sections.

This article has the best quality in Korean 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 590^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 132^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 64^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 169^th most popular in all topics.

The 136^th most popular in AI.

The 67^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 274^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 728^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 869^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2532^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Christopher Columbus” was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (728^th place) and written by 40 authors in all languages (2532^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Christopher Columbus”, its content was written by 191 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (132^nd place) and edited by 11311 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (136^th place).

Christopher Columbus is on the 64^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 67^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 236 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 26873 times in all languages (6121^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4 in November 2014
• Global: #1 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #24 in January 2015
• Global: #27 in October 2017

There are 55 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	Korean (ko) 크리스토퍼 콜럼버스		100
2	Tamil (ta) கிறித்தோபர் கொலம்பசு		100
3	Esperanto (eo) Kristoforo Kolumbo		100
4	English (en) Christopher Columbus		98.6146
5	Spanish (es) Cristóbal Colón		98.5083
6	Italian (it) Cristoforo Colombo		98.2324
7	Slovak (sk) Krištof Kolumbus		95.6522
8	Catalan (ca) Cristòfor Colom		95
9	Estonian (et) Christoph Kolumbus		94.0171
10	Portuguese (pt) Cristóvão Colombo		89.2286

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Christopher Columbus		63 864 923
2	Spanish (es) Cristóbal Colón		38 376 123
3	French (fr) Christophe Colomb		14 492 699
4	German (de) Christoph Kolumbus		11 397 423
5	Russian (ru) Колумб, Христофор		8 480 816
6	Italian (it) Cristoforo Colombo		6 888 682
7	Polish (pl) Krzysztof Kolumb		5 171 906
8	Japanese (ja) クリストファー・コロンブス		4 910 415
9	Portuguese (pt) Cristóvão Colombo		4 461 997
10	Dutch (nl) Christoffel Columbus		3 101 381

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) Christopher Columbus		182 168
2	Spanish (es) Cristóbal Colón		59 862
3	French (fr) Christophe Colomb		36 853
4	German (de) Christoph Kolumbus		29 512
5	Portuguese (pt) Cristóvão Colombo		23 128
6	Russian (ru) Колумб, Христофор		21 716
7	Italian (it) Cristoforo Colombo		15 497
8	Japanese (ja) クリストファー・コロンブス		15 339
9	Chinese (zh) 克里斯托弗·哥伦布		12 267
10	Polish (pl) Krzysztof Kolumb		9 284

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Christopher Columbus		2 752
2	German (de) Christoph Kolumbus		783
3	Italian (it) Cristoforo Colombo		683
4	French (fr) Christophe Colomb		629
5	Spanish (es) Cristóbal Colón		602
6	Russian (ru) Колумб, Христофор		448
7	Dutch (nl) Christoffel Columbus		355
8	Hebrew (he) כריסטופר קולומבוס		334
9	Portuguese (pt) Cristóvão Colombo		291
10	Polish (pl) Krzysztof Kolumb		282

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) Christopher Columbus		9
2	Italian (it) Cristoforo Colombo		6
3	Spanish (es) Cristóbal Colón		4
4	Arabic (ar) كريستوفر كولومبوس		3
5	Hebrew (he) כריסטופר קולומבוס		3
6	Simple English (simple) Christopher Columbus		3
7	Persian (fa) کریستف کلمب		2
8	Polish (pl) Krzysztof Kolumb		2
9	Catalan (ca) Cristòfor Colom		1
10	French (fr) Christophe Colomb		1

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

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