Runway

Quality:

Runway - area of surface used by aircraft to takeoff from and land on. Article “Runway” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.3 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.

Since the creation of article “Runway”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1968 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 280 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 66250 times in all languages (2564^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1037 in July 2008
• Global: #2021 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4828 in January 2026
• Global: #9816 in March 2017

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) Start- und Landebahn		65.7846
2	Greek (el) Διάδρομος αεροδρομίου		65.2931
3	Slovak (sk) Vzletová a pristávacia dráha		61.2028
4	English (en) Runway		55.8389
5	Italian (it) Pista (aviazione)		48.1642
6	Turkish (tr) Pist (havacılık)		45.247
7	Hebrew (he) מסלול טיסה		41.9084
8	Serbian (sr) Полетно-слетна стаза		40.9734
9	Japanese (ja) 滑走路		40.4452
10	Chinese (zh) 跑道 (航空)		39.6259

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Runway		6 826 032
2	German (de) Start- und Landebahn		1 361 368
3	Japanese (ja) 滑走路		1 253 056
4	Russian (ru) Взлётно-посадочная полоса		1 199 484
5	Spanish (es) Pista de aterrizaje		842 808
6	French (fr) Piste (aérodrome)		510 009
7	Polish (pl) Droga startowa		367 699
8	Italian (it) Pista (aviazione)		357 228
9	Portuguese (pt) Pista de pouso e decolagem		336 811
10	Indonesian (id) Landasan pacu		216 570

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) Runway		9 228
2	Japanese (ja) 滑走路		2 680
3	German (de) Start- und Landebahn		2 414
4	Russian (ru) Взлётно-посадочная полоса		2 357
5	Chinese (zh) 跑道 (航空)		894
6	French (fr) Piste (aérodrome)		784
7	Spanish (es) Pista de aterrizaje		689
8	Persian (fa) باند فرودگاه		586
9	Italian (it) Pista (aviazione)		480
10	Polish (pl) Droga startowa		436

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Runway		473
2	German (de) Start- und Landebahn		279
3	Russian (ru) Взлётно-посадочная полоса		110
4	French (fr) Piste (aérodrome)		103
5	Japanese (ja) 滑走路		102
6	Italian (it) Pista (aviazione)		91
7	Dutch (nl) Startbaan		90
8	Spanish (es) Pista de aterrizaje		54
9	Hebrew (he) מסלול טיסה		49
10	Hungarian (hu) Futópálya (repülés)		45

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	French (fr) Piste (aérodrome)		3
2	German (de) Start- und Landebahn		2
3	Thai (th) ทางวิ่งเครื่องบิน		2
4	Arabic (ar) مدرج هبوط		1
5	English (en) Runway		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Futópálya (repülés)		1
7	Japanese (ja) 滑走路		1
8	Korean (ko) 활주로		1
9	Polish (pl) Droga startowa		1
10	Russian (ru) Взлётно-посадочная полоса		1

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

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