Marco Polo

Quality:

Marco Polo - Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia (1254–1324). This person is the 561^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 336^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Marco Polo” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese 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 2911^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 595^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 1650^th most popular in all topics.

The 967^th most popular in AI.

The 561^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3107^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6136^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Marco Polo”, its content was written by 108 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (595^th place) and edited by 6500 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (967^th place).

Marco Polo is on the 336^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 561^st place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 38 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9946 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in June 2004
• Global: #228 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #321 in February 2026
• Global: #82 in December 2014

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, 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	Portuguese (pt) Marco Polo		99.569
2	English (en) Marco Polo		98.3458
3	Indonesian (id) Marco Polo		96.8758
4	Basque (eu) Marco Polo		93.9995
5	Italian (it) Marco Polo		93.7314
6	Esperanto (eo) Marko Polo		89.9068
7	German (de) Marco Polo		85.7779
8	Armenian (hy) Մարկո Պոլո		79.6012
9	French (fr) Marco Polo		77.0029
10	Latin (la) Marcus Paulus Venetus		76.9186

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Marco Polo		28 887 349
2	Spanish (es) Marco Polo		7 650 788
3	French (fr) Marco Polo		6 001 447
4	German (de) Marco Polo		4 591 385
5	Russian (ru) Поло, Марко		4 543 055
6	Italian (it) Marco Polo		3 897 505
7	Japanese (ja) マルコ・ポーロ		2 109 775
8	Portuguese (pt) Marco Polo		2 024 592
9	Polish (pl) Marco Polo		1 864 525
10	Dutch (nl) Marco Polo		1 425 755

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) Marco Polo		53 433
2	German (de) Marco Polo		11 689
3	French (fr) Marco Polo		11 016
4	Spanish (es) Marco Polo		8 371
5	Russian (ru) Поло, Марко		7 372
6	Italian (it) Marco Polo		7 218
7	Japanese (ja) マルコ・ポーロ		5 482
8	Polish (pl) Marco Polo		3 919
9	Chinese (zh) 马可·波罗		3 797
10	Portuguese (pt) Marco Polo		2 885

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Marco Polo		1 250
2	French (fr) Marco Polo		522
3	Italian (it) Marco Polo		481
4	German (de) Marco Polo		451
5	Spanish (es) Marco Polo		390
6	Dutch (nl) Marco Polo		236
7	Hebrew (he) מרקו פולו		224
8	Russian (ru) Поло, Марко		220
9	Swedish (sv) Marco Polo		156
10	Polish (pl) Marco Polo		154

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	Spanish (es) Marco Polo		4
2	English (en) Marco Polo		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Marko Polo		2
4	Catalan (ca) Marco Polo		2
5	Slovenian (sl) Marco Polo		2
6	Estonian (et) Marco Polo		1
7	Hebrew (he) מרקו פולו		1
8	Indonesian (id) Marco Polo		1
9	Italian (it) Marco Polo		1
10	Dutch (nl) Marco Polo		1

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

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