Marco Polo

Quality:

Marco Polo - Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia. This person is the 535^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 307^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Marco Polo” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 2733^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 552^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 307^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1627^th most popular in all topics.

The 962^nd most popular in AI.

The 535^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 917^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3321^st 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 (552^nd place) and edited by 6440 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (962^nd place).

Marco Polo is on the 307^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 535^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 37 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9371 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in June 2004
• Global: #227 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #917 in June 2025
• Global: #66 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, 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	Portuguese (pt) Marco Polo		99.933
2	English (en) Marco Polo		99.5
3	Indonesian (id) Marco Polo		96.9167
4	Basque (eu) Marco Polo		93.9856
5	Italian (it) Marco Polo		93.6023
6	German (de) Marco Polo		89.5348
7	Esperanto (eo) Marko Polo		89.2948
8	Armenian (hy) Մարկո Պոլո		79.7548
9	French (fr) Marco Polo		77.1277
10	Latin (la) Marcus Paulus Venetus		76.107

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Marco Polo		27 979 481
2	Spanish (es) Marco Polo		7 500 041
3	French (fr) Marco Polo		5 785 747
4	German (de) Marco Polo		4 392 611
5	Russian (ru) Поло, Марко		4 137 739
6	Italian (it) Marco Polo		3 773 590
7	Japanese (ja) マルコ・ポーロ		1 986 264
8	Portuguese (pt) Marco Polo		1 974 407
9	Polish (pl) Marco Polo		1 802 764
10	Dutch (nl) Marco Polo		1 377 534

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		85 352
2	German (de) Marco Polo		21 506
3	Spanish (es) Marco Polo		15 581
4	French (fr) Marco Polo		14 437
5	Japanese (ja) マルコ・ポーロ		12 125
6	Russian (ru) Поло, Марко		10 753
7	Italian (it) Marco Polo		10 228
8	Portuguese (pt) Marco Polo		6 223
9	Chinese (zh) 马可·波罗		5 980
10	Polish (pl) Marco Polo		4 797

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		1 225
2	French (fr) Marco Polo		516
3	Italian (it) Marco Polo		477
4	German (de) Marco Polo		440
5	Spanish (es) Marco Polo		385
6	Dutch (nl) Marco Polo		236
7	Hebrew (he) מרקו פולו		222
8	Russian (ru) Поло, Марко		213
9	Swedish (sv) Marco Polo		154
10	Polish (pl) Marco Polo		151

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) Marco Polo		5
2	Italian (it) Marco Polo		2
3	Czech (cs) Marco Polo		1
4	German (de) Marco Polo		1
5	French (fr) Marco Polo		1
6	Russian (ru) Поло, Марко		1
7	Turkish (tr) Marco Polo		1
8	Uzbek (uz) Marko Polo		1
9	Chinese (zh) 马可·波罗		1
10	Arabic (ar) ماركو بولو		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information