The Prince

Quality:

The Prince - political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli. This book is the 119^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 178^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Prince” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 178^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9025^th most popular in all topics.

The 8710^th most popular in AI.

The 119^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1560^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “The Prince” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1560^th place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Prince”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2707 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8710^th place).

The Prince is on the 178^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 119^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 17 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2736 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #119 in May 2005
• Global: #968 in April 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3029 in October 2021
• Global: #4028 in October 2014

There are 51 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	Catalan (ca) El príncep		97.0385
2	English (en) The Prince		82.2098
3	French (fr) Le Prince		79.1828
4	Estonian (et) Valitseja (Il Principe)		76.1747
5	German (de) Der Fürst		56.997
6	Latin (la) De principe		51.3293
7	Italian (it) Il principe		48.5025
8	Korean (ko) 군주론		46.1293
9	Chinese (zh) 君主论		42.2774
10	Polish (pl) Książę (utwór)		33.8597

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Prince		10 855 677
2	Spanish (es) El príncipe		3 941 100
3	Italian (it) Il principe		2 412 653
4	Portuguese (pt) O Príncipe		2 073 669
5	French (fr) Le Prince		1 750 502
6	Russian (ru) Государь (Макиавелли)		1 704 951
7	German (de) Der Fürst		861 402
8	Japanese (ja) 君主論		801 369
9	Arabic (ar) الأمير (كتاب)		709 819
10	Polish (pl) Książę (utwór)		545 875

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) The Prince		39 297
2	Spanish (es) El príncipe		8 440
3	Russian (ru) Государь (Макиавелли)		7 205
4	Turkish (tr) Prens (kitap)		5 740
5	French (fr) Le Prince		4 871
6	Portuguese (pt) O Príncipe		4 337
7	Italian (it) Il principe		3 856
8	Chinese (zh) 君主论		3 570
9	German (de) Der Fürst		2 981
10	Japanese (ja) 君主論		2 780

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Prince		629
2	Italian (it) Il principe		202
3	French (fr) Le Prince		189
4	Spanish (es) El príncipe		174
5	German (de) Der Fürst		166
6	Russian (ru) Государь (Макиавелли)		108
7	Dutch (nl) De vorst		83
8	Portuguese (pt) O Príncipe		70
9	Japanese (ja) 君主論		68
10	Hebrew (he) הנסיך		65

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	English (en) The Prince		7
2	Turkish (tr) Prens (kitap)		3
3	Simple English (simple) The Prince		2
4	Catalan (ca) El príncep		1
5	Hebrew (he) הנסיך		1
6	Italian (it) Il principe		1
7	Latin (la) De principe		1
8	Russian (ru) Государь (Макиавелли)		1
9	Serbian (sr) Владалац		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Quân Vương (sách)		1

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

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