Square kilometre

Quality:

Square kilometre - decimal multiple of the SI unit of surface area. Article “Square kilometre” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Square kilometre”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1896 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 527 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5178^th place) and cited 1456803 times in all languages (53^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #910 in March 2016
• Global: #447 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1375 in October 2008
• Global: #6166 in June 2010

There are 53 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	English (en) Square kilometre		53.9852
2	Hungarian (hu) Négyzetkilométer		43.9134
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kvadratkilometer		34.6111
4	Arabic (ar) كيلومتر مربع		30.8657
5	Simple English (simple) Square kilometre		27.1635
6	Spanish (es) Kilómetro cuadrado		22.8893
7	Norwegian (no) Kvadratkilometer		22.3919
8	Bulgarian (bg) Квадратен километър		22.2957
9	Dutch (nl) Vierkante kilometer		21.4218
10	Catalan (ca) Quilòmetre quadrat		19.1519

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Kilómetro cuadrado		3 224 098
2	English (en) Square kilometre		3 019 392
3	Italian (it) Chilometro quadrato		1 468 065
4	Japanese (ja) 平方キロメートル		1 353 817
5	Russian (ru) Квадратный километр		1 323 681
6	French (fr) Kilomètre carré		848 475
7	Polish (pl) Kilometr kwadratowy		779 241
8	Chinese (zh) 平方千米		691 981
9	Arabic (ar) كيلومتر مربع		647 764
10	Persian (fa) کیلومتر مربع		626 442

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Kilómetro cuadrado		4 989
2	Japanese (ja) 平方キロメートル		4 297
3	Italian (it) Chilometro quadrato		4 238
4	English (en) Square kilometre		3 498
5	Russian (ru) Квадратный километр		2 344
6	French (fr) Kilomètre carré		1 578
7	Chinese (zh) 平方千米		1 122
8	Norwegian (no) Kvadratkilometer		991
9	Greek (el) Τετραγωνικό χιλιόμετρο		985
10	Swedish (sv) Kvadratkilometer		868

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Square kilometre		245
2	Italian (it) Chilometro quadrato		124
3	Spanish (es) Kilómetro cuadrado		117
4	French (fr) Kilomètre carré		100
5	Dutch (nl) Vierkante kilometer		89
6	Russian (ru) Квадратный километр		87
7	Hungarian (hu) Négyzetkilométer		56
8	Danish (da) Kvadratkilometer		54
9	Hebrew (he) קילומטר רבוע		51
10	Croatian (hr) Četvorni kilometar		51

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) Kilomètre carré		2
2	Italian (it) Chilometro quadrato		1
3	Arabic (ar) كيلومتر مربع		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Kvadrat kilometr		0
5	Belarusian (be) Квадратны кіламетр		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Квадратен километър		0
7	Catalan (ca) Quilòmetre quadrat		0
8	Czech (cs) Kilometr čtvereční		0
9	Danish (da) Kvadratkilometer		0
10	Greek (el) Τετραγωνικό χιλιόμετρο		0

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

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