Wikipedia:Most-referenced articles
Articles which are linked to from many places generally cover important topics. They are likely to be read often and therefore should be of the highest quality. It may also be the case that such a popular article covers too broad a topic and could benefit from being split into several more concise entries.
Suggestions for using this information[edit]
- Track changes in rank.
- Which are featured articles?
- Which have no counterpart in any given foreign-language Wikipedia?
- Which are popular only because of User:Rambot-created articles?
- Which of these are redirects? Should they be bypassed?
- Which of these are flagged for some kind of cleanup?
How to update[edit]
See meta:Toolserver/Reports and wikidigest-link-count
See also[edit]
- Wikipedia:Articles with the most references
- Wikipedia:Popular pages
- Wikipedia:Most-wanted articles
- Wikipedia:Article traffic jumps
General[edit]
To assist in topic identification and coverage analysis (of scope), links to the corresponding outlines have been provided, where available. Many of the terms on this list appear because they are featured in auto-generated text.
- Notes:
- FA = Featured Article
- GA = Good Article
Updated: May 2020
| Page | Links total | Direct | via redirect | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| International Standard Book Number | 1145265 | 150863 | 994402 | |
| Geographic coordinate system | 1119214 | 1116647 | 2567 | |
| Virtual International Authority File | 685199 | 680992 | 4207 | |
| WorldCat | 644016 | 7715 | 636301 | |
| Library of Congress Control Number | 536790 | 522775 | 14015 | |
| United States | 484831 | 466785 | 18046 | |
| International Standard Name Identifier | 444828 | 444814 | 14 | |
| Wikidata | 428618 | 428617 | 1 | |
| Diacritic | 411701 | 1162 | 410539 | |
| Time zone | 409222 | 409026 | 196 | |
| Taxonomy (biology) | 407136 | 405354 | 1782 | GA |
| Wayback Machine | 395845 | 395656 | 189 | |
| Digital object identifier | 361935 | 73326 | 288609 | |
| Global Biodiversity Information Facility | 346181 | 346057 | 124 | |
| Binomial nomenclature | 327570 | 316121 | 11449 | |
| Integrated Authority File | 323249 | 318607 | 4642 | |
| IMDb | 321316 | 310843 | 10473 | |
| Animal | 318644 | 290146 | 28498 | GA |
| List of sovereign states | 270436 | 139127 | 131309 | |
| Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera | 268770 | 268770 | 0 | |
| Bibliothèque nationale de France | 266909 | 261530 | 5379 | |
| Daylight saving time | 263874 | 263541 | 333 | |
| France | 236307 | 235797 | 510 | |
| Encyclopedia of Life | 231131 | 231078 | 53 | |
| United Kingdom | 230017 | 219072 | 10945 | |
| Association football | 221867 | 186767 | 35100 | |
| Système universitaire de documentation | 215394 | 213057 | 2337 | |
| Record label | 214541 | 213508 | 1033 | |
| Race and ethnicity in the United States Census | 210066 | 2809 | 207257 | |
| Arthropod | 204965 | 183319 | 21646 | GA |
| Music genre | 204569 | 204248 | 321 | |
| INaturalist | 203702 | 203702 | 0 | |
| Germany | 200581 | 199546 | 1035 | FA |
| Royal Library of the Netherlands | 198732 | 198494 | 238 | |
| Wikispecies | 197378 | 197377 | 1 | |
| International Standard Serial Number | 190040 | 40340 | 149700 | |
| Insect | 187933 | 167151 | 20782 | |
| India | 183023 | 182214 | 809 | FA |
| National Center for Biotechnology Information | 180614 | 180606 | 8 | |
| Record producer | 176879 | 173445 | 3434 | |
| World War II | 174873 | 143163 | 31710 | GA |
| Iran | 171000 | 103464 | 67536 | |
| Italy | 168691 | 167000 | 1691 | |
| Australia | 164515 | 163128 | 1387 | FA |
| PubMed | 161913 | 18767 | 143146 | |
| Canada | 158870 | 158837 | 33 | FA |
| England | 157380 | 157314 | 66 | GA |
| MusicBrainz | 152178 | 152129 | 49 | |
| Russia | 151621 | 148265 | 3356 | GA |
| Japan | 150035 | 149968 | 67 | FA |
| Album | 148856 | 117688 | 31168 | |
| Integrated Taxonomic Information System | 142410 | 142108 | 302 | |
| Poland | 141676 | 141444 | 232 | |
| National Library of the Czech Republic | 140000 | 139987 | 13 | |
| Spain | 137640 | 136498 | 1142 | |
| Synonym (taxonomy) | 136142 | 134380 | 1762 | |
| The New York Times | 133494 | 104228 | 29266 | |
| OCLC | 132977 | 20211 | 112766 | |
| AllMusic | 130924 | 71457 | 59467 | |
| New York City | 130147 | 118583 | 11564 | |
| China | 128486 | 111600 | 16886 | |
| SNAC | 126050 | 126048 | 2 | |
| Iran Standard Time | 120784 | 60442 | 60342 | |
| UTC+02:00 | 118882 | 44490 | 74392 | |
| Surname | 117155 | 111921 | 5234 | |
| London | 115792 | 110611 | 5181 | GA |
| Common name | 115120 | 114982 | 138 | |
| Brazil | 113498 | 112235 | 1263 | |
| Netherlands | 110389 | 107851 | 2538 | |
| Nomenclature codes | 109893 | 93 | 109800 | |
| Single (music) | 109120 | 100729 | 8391 | |
| National Register of Historic Places | 107523 | 88770 | 18753 | GA |
| U.S. state | 107270 | 105774 | 1496 | |
| Central European Time | 107225 | 107165 | 60 | |
| Sweden | 105941 | 105032 | 909 | |
| Unincorporated area | 103858 | 86172 | 17686 | |
| Central European Summer Time | 103668 | 103667 | 1 | |
| UTC+01:00 | 100359 | 45103 | 55256 | |
| Lepidoptera | 99738 | 99683 | 55 | GA |
| Catholic Church | 98815 | 33609 | 65206 | GA |
| Midfielder | 97668 | 71469 | 26199 | |
| Switzerland | 96707 | 95161 | 1546 | GA |
| County seat | 96693 | 94398 | 2295 | |
| Village | 96186 | 94178 | 2008 | |
| World War I | 93158 | 70250 | 22908 | |
| PubMed Central | 90875 | 23109 | 67766 | |
| MOS:NOPIPE | 90260 | 90260 | 0 | |
| Persian language | 88647 | 87883 | 764 | |
| Russian language | 87383 | 87109 | 274 | |
| California | 85908 | 85395 | 513 | |
| National Park Service | 84863 | 84428 | 435 | |
| Mexico | 84044 | 82884 | 1160 | |
| Geographic Names Information System | 83942 | 83145 | 797 | |
| Moth | 83033 | 81601 | 1432 | |
| Defender (association football) | 82793 | 64204 | 18589 | |
| Biblioteca Nacional de España | 81382 | 81271 | 111 | |
| Belgium | 80530 | 80137 | 393 | |
| South Africa | 80406 | 80078 | 328 | |
| English language | 79194 | 76174 | 3020 | GA |
| IUCN Red List | 79190 | 67719 | 11471 | |
| Soviet Union | 79148 | 67836 | 11312 | |
| Austria | 77991 | 77613 | 378 | |
| Argentina | 77769 | 77670 | 99 | |
| Los Angeles | 77507 | 57968 | 19539 | |
| YouTube | 76611 | 75665 | 946 | |
| Capital city | 76083 | 69368 | 6715 | |
| The Global Lepidoptera Names Index | 75851 | 75848 | 3 | |
| Given name | 74505 | 74300 | 205 | |
| United States Geological Survey | 74165 | 68154 | 6011 | |
| New Zealand | 73954 | 73877 | 77 | GA |
| Turkey | 73855 | 72960 | 895 | |
| Norway | 73683 | 72537 | 1146 | |
| Billboard (magazine) | 73165 | 66768 | 6397 | GA |
| Mollusca | 72647 | 35979 | 36668 | GA |
| Historic districts in the United States | 72550 | 66949 | 5601 | GA |
| Chordate | 72117 | 63389 | 8728 | |
| Telephone numbering plan | 71952 | 69578 | 2374 | |
| Forward (association football) | 71554 | 54118 | 17436 | |
| UTC−05:00 | 71276 | 2876 | 68400 | |
| Plant | 70032 | 59776 | 10256 | |
| World Register of Marine Species | 69703 | 69545 | 158 | |
| Czech Republic | 69494 | 68872 | 622 | |
| JSTOR | 68754 | 10929 | 57825 | |
| Public domain | 68646 | 68469 | 177 | |
| Denmark | 68571 | 66176 | 2395 | |
| Sports Reference | 68436 | 67966 | 470 | |
| Contributing property | 68396 | 64768 | 3628 | |
| Songwriter | 68244 | 67403 | 841 | |
| Scotland | 67694 | 67683 | 11 | |
| Flowering plant | 66313 | 51570 | 14743 | |
| New York (state) | 65892 | 62477 | 3415 | |
| Gastropoda | 65359 | 32169 | 33190 | |
| Census-designated place | 64974 | 64271 | 703 | |
| National Register of Historic Places property types | 64942 | 64829 | 113 | |
| Dehestan (administrative division) | 64933 | 1590 | 63343 | |
| Romania | 64499 | 64359 | 140 | |
| German language | 64361 | 63685 | 676 | |
| Paris | 64142 | 60140 | 4002 | GA |
| Genus | 63805 | 57019 | 6786 | |
| Provinces of Iran | 63741 | 63727 | 14 | |
| International Plant Names Index | 63599 | 63512 | 87 | |
| Counties of Iran | 63523 | 63522 | 1 | |
| Keeper of the Register | 63496 | 63493 | 3 | |
| History of the National Register of Historic Places | 63490 | 63490 | 0 | |
| Bakhsh | 63445 | 63382 | 63 | |
| Family (biology) | 63209 | 62341 | 868 | |
| Finland | 63203 | 62940 | 263 | |
| South Korea | 63143 | 61804 | 1339 | |
| Species | 63082 | 62018 | 1064 | GA |
| Administrative divisions of Iran | 63011 | 62992 | 19 | |
| Washington, D.C. | 62596 | 45901 | 16695 | FA |
| Democratic Party (United States) | 62422 | 55903 | 6519 | |
| Ukraine | 62399 | 62249 | 150 | |
| Chinese language | 62121 | 52915 | 9206 | |
| Bibsys | 61980 | 61842 | 138 | |
| The Guardian | 61792 | 60435 | 1357 | |
| Alma mater | 61177 | 61008 | 169 | |
| UTC+04:30 | 60889 | 337 | 60552 | |
| Philippines | 60643 | 57695 | 2948 | GA |
| UTC+03:30 | 60557 | 262 | 60295 | |
| Republican Party (United States) | 60366 | 54347 | 6019 | |
| Chicago | 59878 | 44657 | 15221 | |
| Conservation status | 59852 | 59852 | 0 | |
| Hungary | 59672 | 59609 | 63 | |
| Portugal | 58400 | 58252 | 148 | |
| Greece | 58195 | 58101 | 94 | |
| Trove | 57336 | 56918 | 418 | |
| Tropicos | 57025 | 57024 | 1 | |
| Romanization | 57006 | 1634 | 55372 | |
| Powiat | 56041 | 56011 | 30 | |
| Beetle | 55956 | 52142 | 3814 | GA |
| Voivodeships of Poland | 55910 | 55742 | 168 | |
| Gmina | 55859 | 55851 | 8 | |
| Bill Mallon | 55833 | 55833 | 0 | |
| Bibcode | 54908 | 11457 | 43451 | |
| Israel | 54433 | 53408 | 1025 | |
| Eastern Time Zone | 54303 | 29179 | 25124 | |
| United States Census Bureau | 53724 | 46819 | 6905 | |
| GEOnet Names Server | 53118 | 53118 | 0 | |
| Europe | 52616 | 52524 | 92 | |
| ISO 639-3 | 52423 | 9214 | 43209 | |
| Plants of the World Online | 52041 | 52041 | 0 | |
| Ice hockey | 51817 | 34094 | 17723 | |
| ISO 4 | 51815 | 51815 | 0 | |
| National Diet Library | 51805 | 51765 | 40 | |
| Vascular plant | 51731 | 51425 | 306 | |
| Rock music | 51558 | 49447 | 2111 | |
| American football | 51477 | 50301 | 1176 | GA |
| List of legal entity types by country | 51433 | 50122 | 1311 | |
| BBC | 51194 | 48716 | 2478 | |
| Thailand | 50985 | 49578 | 1407 | |
| Croatia | 50486 | 50256 | 230 | GA |
U.S. Census[edit]
Updated: May 2024
Years[edit]
Updated: May 2024