The Bridges of Madison County

The Bridges of Madison County - 1992 novel by Robert James Waller. This book is the 1613^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 218^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Bridges of Madison County” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.2 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 0.8 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “The Bridges of Madison County”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 225 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Bridges of Madison County is on the 218^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1613^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 9 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 208 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #696 in November 2012
• Global: #49851 in September 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4950 in May 2020
• Global: #50544 in August 2015

There are 17 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	English (en) The Bridges of Madison County		43.72
2	Spanish (es) Los puentes de Madison (novela)		35.5534
3	Russian (ru) Мосты округа Мэдисон (роман)		29.4035
4	Esperanto (eo) The Bridges of Madison County (libro)		26.9488
5	Japanese (ja) マディソン郡の橋		24.9068
6	Arabic (ar) جسور مقاطعة ماديسون (رواية قصيرة)		23.9295
7	Urdu (ur) دی بریجز آف میڈیسن کاؤنٹی		22.0314
8	Hebrew (he) הגשרים של מחוז מדיסון		19.243
9	Simple English (simple) The Bridges of Madison County		15.1673
10	Hindi (hi) मैडीसन काउंटी के पुल (पुस्तक)		12.5639

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Bridges of Madison County" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Bridges of Madison County		2 043 317
2	Japanese (ja) マディソン郡の橋		839 538
3	Korean (ko) 매디슨 카운티의 다리		151 860
4	Italian (it) I ponti di Madison County (romanzo)		84 026
5	Polish (pl) Co się wydarzyło w Madison County		71 549
6	Portuguese (pt) As Pontes de Madison		35 577
7	Hebrew (he) הגשרים של מחוז מדיסון		30 616
8	Spanish (es) Los puentes de Madison (novela)		24 274
9	Simple English (simple) The Bridges of Madison County		19 767
10	Persian (fa) پل‌های مدیسون کانتی		15 051

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Bridges of Madison County" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Bridges of Madison County		5 137
2	Korean (ko) 매디슨 카운티의 다리		2 660
3	Russian (ru) Мосты округа Мэдисон (роман)		813
4	Italian (it) I ponti di Madison County (romanzo)		752
5	Japanese (ja) マディソン郡の橋		471
6	Spanish (es) Los puentes de Madison (novela)		447
7	Simple English (simple) The Bridges of Madison County		408
8	German (de) Die Brücken von Madison County		383
9	Persian (fa) پل‌های مدیسون کانتی		142
10	Polish (pl) Co się wydarzyło w Madison County		130

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

Language versions of the article "The Bridges of Madison County" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Bridges of Madison County		108
2	Italian (it) I ponti di Madison County (romanzo)		14
3	Hebrew (he) הגשרים של מחוז מדיסון		13
4	Korean (ko) 매디슨 카운티의 다리		13
5	Polish (pl) Co się wydarzyło w Madison County		13
6	Simple English (simple) The Bridges of Madison County		13
7	Japanese (ja) マディソン郡の橋		10
8	Portuguese (pt) As Pontes de Madison		9
9	Ukrainian (uk) Мости округу Медісон (роман)		7
10	German (de) Die Brücken von Madison County		5

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

Language versions of the article "The Bridges of Madison County" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Urdu (ur) دی بریجز آف میڈیسن کاؤنٹی		3
2	Italian (it) I ponti di Madison County (romanzo)		1
3	Korean (ko) 매디슨 카운티의 다리		1
4	Portuguese (pt) As Pontes de Madison		1
5	Arabic (ar) جسور مقاطعة ماديسون (رواية قصيرة)		0
6	German (de) Die Brücken von Madison County		0
7	English (en) The Bridges of Madison County		0
8	Esperanto (eo) The Bridges of Madison County (libro)		0
9	Spanish (es) Los puentes de Madison (novela)		0
10	Persian (fa) پل‌های مدیسون کانتی		0

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

Language versions of the article "The Bridges of Madison County" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Bridges of Madison County		59
2	Japanese (ja) マディソン郡の橋		41
3	Korean (ko) 매디슨 카운티의 다리		18
4	Italian (it) I ponti di Madison County (romanzo)		14
5	Spanish (es) Los puentes de Madison (novela)		11
6	Hebrew (he) הגשרים של מחוז מדיסון		9
7	Simple English (simple) The Bridges of Madison County		9
8	Ukrainian (uk) Мости округу Медісон (роман)		7
9	Persian (fa) پل‌های مدیسون کانتی		6
10	Polish (pl) Co się wydarzyło w Madison County		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جسور مقاطعة ماديسون (رواية قصيرة)
de	German Die Brücken von Madison County
en	English The Bridges of Madison County
eo	Esperanto The Bridges of Madison County (libro)
es	Spanish Los puentes de Madison (novela)
fa	Persian پل‌های مدیسون کانتی
he	Hebrew הגשרים של מחוז מדיסון
hi	Hindi मैडीसन काउंटी के पुल (पुस्तक)
it	Italian I ponti di Madison County (romanzo)
ja	Japanese マディソン郡の橋
ko	Korean 매디슨 카운티의 다리
pl	Polish Co się wydarzyło w Madison County
pt	Portuguese As Pontes de Madison
ru	Russian Мосты округа Мэдисон (роман)
simple	Simple English The Bridges of Madison County
uk	Ukrainian Мости округу Медісон (роман)
ur	Urdu دی بریجز آف میڈیسن کاؤنٹی

Best Rank

Simple English: #4950 05.2020

Global: #50544 08.2015

Best Rank

Simple English: #696 11.2012

Global: #49851 09.2018

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