Lost Horizon (novel)

Quality:

Lost Horizon - 1933 novel by James Hilton. This book is the 1685^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 336^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Lost Horizon (novel)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.85 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 336^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1685^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Lost Horizon (novel)”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 472 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Lost Horizon is on the 336^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1685^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 500 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3639 in August 2014
• Global: #2071 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9207 in July 2017
• Global: #60307 in July 2009

There are 19 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	Romanian (ro) Orizont pierdut (roman)		94.6667
2	French (fr) Les Horizons perdus (roman)		51.0735
3	German (de) Der verlorene Horizont		48.8324
4	Indonesian (id) Lost Horizon		36.5258
5	English (en) Lost Horizon		34.6195
6	Russian (ru) Потерянный горизонт (роман)		25.4989
7	Spanish (es) Horizontes perdidos		18.3642
8	Simple English (simple) Lost Horizon (novel)		16.1277
9	Arabic (ar) الأفق المفقود		13.7565
10	Korean (ko) 잃어버린 지평선		12.7795

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lost Horizon		2 197 819
2	Spanish (es) Horizontes perdidos		219 132
3	Chinese (zh) 消失的地平线		171 033
4	German (de) Der verlorene Horizont		141 080
5	Japanese (ja) 失われた地平線		113 382
6	Italian (it) Orizzonte perduto (romanzo)		107 780
7	Portuguese (pt) Horizonte Perdido		66 715
8	Korean (ko) 잃어버린 지평선		45 096
9	French (fr) Les Horizons perdus (roman)		32 066
10	Dutch (nl) Lost Horizon (roman)		27 789

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) Lost Horizon		10 189
2	Chinese (zh) 消失的地平线		988
3	German (de) Der verlorene Horizont		786
4	Japanese (ja) 失われた地平線		671
5	Simple English (simple) Lost Horizon (novel)		575
6	Russian (ru) Потерянный горизонт (роман)		571
7	Spanish (es) Horizontes perdidos		569
8	Italian (it) Orizzonte perduto (romanzo)		527
9	French (fr) Les Horizons perdus (roman)		452
10	Korean (ko) 잃어버린 지평선		448

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lost Horizon		181
2	German (de) Der verlorene Horizont		77
3	French (fr) Les Horizons perdus (roman)		30
4	Italian (it) Orizzonte perduto (romanzo)		30
5	Spanish (es) Horizontes perdidos		27
6	Dutch (nl) Lost Horizon (roman)		23
7	Chinese (zh) 消失的地平线		22
8	Japanese (ja) 失われた地平線		13
9	Korean (ko) 잃어버린 지평선		10
10	Simple English (simple) Lost Horizon (novel)		10

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	Romanian (ro) Orizont pierdut (roman)		2
2	English (en) Lost Horizon		1
3	Arabic (ar) الأفق المفقود		0
4	German (de) Der verlorene Horizont		0
5	Spanish (es) Horizontes perdidos		0
6	Persian (fa) افق گمشده		0
7	Finnish (fi) Sininen kuu (James Hiltonin kirja)		0
8	French (fr) Les Horizons perdus (roman)		0
9	Indonesian (id) Lost Horizon		0
10	Italian (it) Orizzonte perduto (romanzo)		0

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

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