The Left Hand of Darkness

The Left Hand of Darkness - 1969 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. This book is the 1052^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 550^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Left Hand of Darkness” in Simple English Wikipedia has 31 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 5 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “The Left Hand of Darkness” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5703^rd place) and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Left Hand of Darkness”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 769 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Left Hand of Darkness is on the 550^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1052^nd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 12 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1943 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1079 in June 2008
• Global: #2417 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #13484 in June 2008
• Global: #14052 in January 2018

There are 27 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 Left Hand of Darkness		88.5714
2	Portuguese (pt) The Left Hand of Darkness		80.3562
3	Georgian (ka) წყვდიადის მარცხენა ხელი		54.7045
4	French (fr) La Main gauche de la nuit		51.2233
5	Catalan (ca) La mà esquerra de la foscor		34.3766
6	Czech (cs) Levá ruka tmy		34.2303
7	Simple English (simple) The Left Hand of Darkness		30.9568
8	German (de) Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit		30.7456
9	Romanian (ro) Mâna stângă a întunericului		30.4286
10	Swedish (sv) Mörkrets vänstra hand		28.8022

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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 Left Hand of Darkness" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Left Hand of Darkness		3 889 559
2	Spanish (es) La mano izquierda de la oscuridad		234 752
3	Russian (ru) Левая рука Тьмы		225 833
4	French (fr) La Main gauche de la nuit		114 759
5	Italian (it) La mano sinistra delle tenebre		100 598
6	Japanese (ja) 闇の左手		84 233
7	Polish (pl) Lewa ręka ciemności		75 391
8	German (de) Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit		63 048
9	Chinese (zh) 黑暗的左手		60 851
10	Portuguese (pt) The Left Hand of Darkness		49 395

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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 Left Hand of Darkness" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Left Hand of Darkness		40 327
2	Spanish (es) La mano izquierda de la oscuridad		1 855
3	Russian (ru) Левая рука Тьмы		1 085
4	French (fr) La Main gauche de la nuit		1 082
5	Italian (it) La mano sinistra delle tenebre		847
6	German (de) Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit		774
7	Japanese (ja) 闇の左手		644
8	Portuguese (pt) The Left Hand of Darkness		595
9	Chinese (zh) 黑暗的左手		392
10	Polish (pl) Lewa ręka ciemności		281

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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 Left Hand of Darkness" 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 Left Hand of Darkness		343
2	French (fr) La Main gauche de la nuit		75
3	Italian (it) La mano sinistra delle tenebre		39
4	Hebrew (he) צד שמאל של החושך		34
5	Russian (ru) Левая рука Тьмы		33
6	Spanish (es) La mano izquierda de la oscuridad		29
7	Polish (pl) Lewa ręka ciemności		22
8	Dutch (nl) Duisters linkerhand		19
9	German (de) Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit		18
10	Chinese (zh) 黑暗的左手		18

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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 Left Hand of Darkness" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Left Hand of Darkness		4
2	Hungarian (hu) A sötétség balkeze		1
3	Indonesian (id) The Left Hand of Darkness		1
4	Simple English (simple) The Left Hand of Darkness		1
5	Arabic (ar) اليد اليسرى للظلام		0
6	Catalan (ca) La mà esquerra de la foscor		0
7	Czech (cs) Levá ruka tmy		0
8	Danish (da) Mørkets Venstre Hånd		0
9	German (de) Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit		0
10	Spanish (es) La mano izquierda de la oscuridad		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 Left Hand of Darkness" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Left Hand of Darkness		482
2	French (fr) La Main gauche de la nuit		406
3	Russian (ru) Левая рука Тьмы		200
4	Romanian (ro) Mâna stângă a întunericului		174
5	Polish (pl) Lewa ręka ciemności		114
6	Ukrainian (uk) Ліва рука темряви		100
7	Chinese (zh) 黑暗的左手		92
8	Japanese (ja) 闇の左手		68
9	Turkish (tr) Karanlığın Sol Eli		61
10	Indonesian (id) The Left Hand of Darkness		41

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اليد اليسرى للظلام
ca	Catalan La mà esquerra de la foscor
cs	Czech Levá ruka tmy
da	Danish Mørkets Venstre Hånd
de	German Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit
en	English The Left Hand of Darkness
es	Spanish La mano izquierda de la oscuridad
fa	Persian دست چپ تاریکی
fi	Finnish Pimeyden vasen käsi
fr	French La Main gauche de la nuit
gl	Galician The Left Hand of Darkness
he	Hebrew צד שמאל של החושך
hu	Hungarian A sötétség balkeze
id	Indonesian The Left Hand of Darkness
it	Italian La mano sinistra delle tenebre
ja	Japanese 闇の左手
ka	Georgian წყვდიადის მარცხენა ხელი
nl	Dutch Duisters linkerhand
pl	Polish Lewa ręka ciemności
pt	Portuguese The Left Hand of Darkness
ro	Romanian Mâna stângă a întunericului
ru	Russian Левая рука Тьмы
simple	Simple English The Left Hand of Darkness
sv	Swedish Mörkrets vänstra hand
tr	Turkish Karanlığın Sol Eli
uk	Ukrainian Ліва рука темряви
zh	Chinese 黑暗的左手

Best Rank

Simple English: #13484 06.2008

Global: #14052 01.2018

Best Rank

Simple English: #1079 06.2008

Global: #2417 07.2002

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