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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.

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See also

• Wikipedia:Articles with the most references
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General

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

Updated: May 2011

1. 1980_United_States_Census (5995 links)
2. 1970_United_States_Census (5607 links)
3. 1960_United_States_Census (5355 links)
4. 1950_United_States_Census (5115 links)
5. 1940_United_States_Census (5029 links)
6. 1930_United_States_Census (4958 links)
7. 1920_United_States_Census (4184 links)
8. 1910_United_States_Census (3938 links)
9. 1900_United_States_Census (3517 links)
10. 1890_United_States_Census (2545 links)
11. 1880_United_States_Census (2216 links)
12. 1870_United_States_Census (1807 links)
13. 1860_United_States_Census (1523 links)
14. 1850_United_States_Census (1174 links)
15. 1840_United_States_Census (857 links)
16. 1830_United_States_Census (702 links)
17. 1820_United_States_Census (594 links)
18. 1810_United_States_Census (471 links)
19. 1800_United_States_Census (383 links)
20. 1790_United_States_Census (297 links)

Years

Updated: May 2024

1. 2007 (26037 links)
2. 2006 (24539 links)
3. 2008 (18753 links)
4. 2005 (11905 links)
5. 2004 (9194 links)
6. 2009 (8572 links)
7. 2003 (7672 links)
8. 2001 (7125 links)
9. 2002 (6977 links)
10. 2000 (6939 links)
11. 2024 (6761 links)
12. 1999 (6404 links)
13. 1998 (5899 links)
14. 1991 (5857 links)
15. 1992 (5811 links)
16. 2010 (5795 links)
17. 1997 (5772 links)
18. 1996 (5677 links)
19. 1995 (5635 links)
20. 2014 (5413 links)
21. 1990 (5408 links)
22. 1994 (5323 links)
23. 1993 (5274 links)
24. 2011 (5235 links)
25. 1989 (5091 links)
26. 2012 (4986 links)
27. 1988 (4903 links)
28. 1987 (4879 links)
29. 1984 (4815 links)
30. 2013 (4672 links)
31. 1979 (4660 links)
32. 1982 (4590 links)
33. 1983 (4581 links)
34. 1986 (4559 links)
35. 1980 (4502 links)
36. 1981 (4414 links)
37. 1985 (4407 links)
38. 1974 (4305 links)
39. 2015 (4293 links)
40. 1973 (4281 links)
41. 1969 (4254 links)
42. 2020 (4230 links)
43. 1975 (4191 links)
44. 1963 (4170 links)
45. 1970 (4156 links)
46. 1972 (4155 links)
47. 1967 (4123 links)
48. 2016 (4115 links)
49. 1968 (4105 links)
50. 1978 (4093 links)
51. 1976 (4038 links)
52. 1945 (4005 links)
53. 2019 (3972 links)
54. 2017 (3967 links)
55. 1964 (3947 links)
56. 1971 (3935 links)
57. 1977 (3923 links)
58. 2018 (3851 links)
59. 1960 (3831 links)
60. 1965 (3750 links)
61. 1961 (3690 links)
62. 1966 (3618 links)
63. 2021 (3609 links)
64. 2022 (3550 links)
65. 1962 (3532 links)
66. 1956 (3524 links)
67. 1944 (3481 links)
68. 1957 (3476 links)
69. 1942 (3416 links)
70. 1946 (3413 links)
71. 1940 (3396 links)
72. 1959 (3394 links)
73. 1924 (3394 links)
74. 1941 (3381 links)
75. 1948 (3369 links)
76. 1947 (3347 links)
77. 1954 (3325 links)
78. 1958 (3294 links)
79. 1950 (3278 links)
80. 2023 (3244 links)
81. 1943 (3188 links)
82. 1949 (3163 links)
83. 1939 (3159 links)
84. 1920 (3108 links)
85. 1952 (3094 links)
86. 1953 (3055 links)
87. 1955 (3054 links)
88. 1918 (3047 links)
89. 1951 (3018 links)
90. 1937 (2968 links)
91. 1936 (2929 links)
92. 1930 (2887 links)
93. 1938 (2884 links)
94. 1933 (2844 links)
95. 1919 (2820 links)
96. 1934 (2796 links)
97. 1929 (2773 links)
98. 1932 (2766 links)
99. 1927 (2748 links)
100. 1928 (2725 links)