High-speed rail

Quality:

High-speed rail - type of rail network utilizing trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail. Article “High-speed rail” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5541^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8069^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “High-speed rail”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3420 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5541^st place).

The article is cited 82 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12411 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1523 in December 2021
• Global: #1263 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9732 in May 2022
• Global: #6327 in July 2011

There are 39 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	Hungarian (hu) Nagysebességű vasút		91.6402
2	Turkish (tr) Yüksek hızlı demiryolu		89.8813
3	Czech (cs) Vysokorychlostní trať		89.0778
4	Italian (it) Alta velocità ferroviaria		83.5678
5	Spanish (es) Alta velocidad ferroviaria		81.3882
6	Indonesian (id) Kereta kecepatan tinggi		79.3381
7	Chinese (zh) 高速鐵路		74.7501
8	English (en) High-speed rail		73.2817
9	Portuguese (pt) Alta velocidade ferroviária		68.9356
10	Thai (th) รถไฟความเร็วสูง		68.3665

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) High-speed rail		9 723 725
2	Italian (it) Alta velocità ferroviaria		1 687 775
3	Japanese (ja) 高速鉄道		1 327 972
4	Chinese (zh) 高速鐵路		1 307 723
5	Portuguese (pt) Alta velocidade ferroviária		688 645
6	Russian (ru) Высокоскоростной наземный транспорт		632 357
7	Polish (pl) Kolej dużych prędkości		494 731
8	Turkish (tr) Yüksek hızlı demiryolu		434 219
9	German (de) Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr		296 200
10	Spanish (es) Alta velocidad ferroviaria		235 008

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) High-speed rail		21 245
2	Japanese (ja) 高速鉄道		3 347
3	Italian (it) Alta velocità ferroviaria		3 132
4	Chinese (zh) 高速鐵路		2 835
5	Polish (pl) Kolej dużych prędkości		877
6	German (de) Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr		854
7	Russian (ru) Высокоскоростной наземный транспорт		846
8	Portuguese (pt) Alta velocidade ferroviária		539
9	Finnish (fi) Suurnopeusjuna		522
10	Turkish (tr) Yüksek hızlı demiryolu		519

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) High-speed rail		1 248
2	Chinese (zh) 高速鐵路		315
3	Italian (it) Alta velocità ferroviaria		309
4	Japanese (ja) 高速鉄道		185
5	Portuguese (pt) Alta velocidade ferroviária		128
6	German (de) Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr		114
7	Hebrew (he) רכבת מהירה		102
8	Czech (cs) Vysokorychlostní trať		95
9	Russian (ru) Высокоскоростной наземный транспорт		90
10	French (fr) Grande vitesse ferroviaire		89

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	Chinese (zh) 高速鐵路		10
2	English (en) High-speed rail		5
3	Japanese (ja) 高速鉄道		3
4	Azerbaijani (az) Sürət qatarı		2
5	Catalan (ca) Alta velocitat ferroviària		2
6	Hungarian (hu) Nagysebességű vasút		1
7	Arabic (ar) سكة حديدية فائقة السرعة		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Високоскоростен железопътен транспорт		0
9	Czech (cs) Vysokorychlostní trať		0
10	German (de) Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr		0

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

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