Iron Cross

Quality:

Iron Cross - military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1870–1918) and Nazi Germany. Article “Iron Cross” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7911^th most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8175^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Iron Cross”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2546 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 35 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 47456 times in all languages (3463^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #336 in April 2007
• Global: #1207 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5436 in January 2008
• Global: #4478 in March 2008

There are 44 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	German (de) Eisernes Kreuz		72.482
2	Hungarian (hu) Vaskereszt		70.7925
3	English (en) Iron Cross		58.5909
4	Dutch (nl) IJzeren Kruis (Duitsland)		55.6252
5	Persian (fa) صلیب آهنین		52.2788
6	Polish (pl) Krzyż Żelazny		51.4616
7	Armenian (hy) Երկաթե խաչ		51.1623
8	Croatian (hr) Željezni križ		48.0141
9	Ukrainian (uk) Залізний Хрест (Німеччина)		45.4297
10	Russian (ru) Железный крест		45.4279

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Iron Cross		11 525 747
2	German (de) Eisernes Kreuz		6 095 701
3	Russian (ru) Железный крест		3 686 356
4	Spanish (es) Cruz de Hierro		1 638 712
5	French (fr) Croix de fer		1 254 248
6	Italian (it) Croce di Ferro		1 228 489
7	Polish (pl) Krzyż Żelazny		1 225 203
8	Japanese (ja) 鉄十字		841 722
9	Portuguese (pt) Cruz de Ferro		718 469
10	Chinese (zh) 鐵十字勳章		662 803

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) Iron Cross		40 674
2	Russian (ru) Железный крест		18 408
3	German (de) Eisernes Kreuz		15 849
4	Polish (pl) Krzyż Żelazny		5 741
5	French (fr) Croix de fer		4 893
6	Italian (it) Croce di Ferro		4 429
7	Spanish (es) Cruz de Hierro		3 997
8	Japanese (ja) 鉄十字		3 692
9	Turkish (tr) Demir Haç		2 649
10	Chinese (zh) 鐵十字勳章		2 142

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Iron Cross		537
2	German (de) Eisernes Kreuz		377
3	French (fr) Croix de fer		157
4	Russian (ru) Железный крест		141
5	Italian (it) Croce di Ferro		126
6	Dutch (nl) IJzeren Kruis (Duitsland)		109
7	Polish (pl) Krzyż Żelazny		75
8	Spanish (es) Cruz de Hierro		72
9	Swedish (sv) Järnkorset		70
10	Hebrew (he) צלב הברזל		68

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	Russian (ru) Железный крест		2
2	Esperanto (eo) Fera Kruco		1
3	Hebrew (he) צלב הברזל		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Vaskereszt		1
5	Lithuanian (lt) Geležinis kryžius		1
6	Chinese (zh) 鐵十字勳章		1
7	Arabic (ar) الصليب الحديدي		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) "Dəmir xaç" ordeni		0
9	Belarusian (be) Жалезны крыж		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Железен кръст		0

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

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