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The Library of Congress is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. The library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; it also maintains the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia. The library's functions are overseen by the librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the architect of the Capitol. The Library of Congress is one of the largest libraries in the world. Its "collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 450 languages." More information...

Multilingual Wikipedia

In June 2020 the website loc.gov was on the 90^th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 127^th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "loc.gov" is the 100^th most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).

The website is placed before tvline.com and after thefutoncritic.com in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.

PR-score:

90^th place

281,404,429

-35,512,734

AR-score:

100^th place

36,251,166

+365,791

F-score:

127^th place

110,426

+1,091

English Wikipedia (en)

PR-score:

78^th place

209,791,192

-20,596,777

AR-score:

75^th place

21,951,891

+250,790

F-score:

51^st place

58,666

+629

Arabic Wikipedia (ar)

PR-score:

13^th place

11,490,696

-17,634

AR-score:

18^th place

3,910,103

+12,505

F-score:

38^th place

8,623

+32

Spanish Wikipedia (es)

PR-score:

195^th place

10,976,627

-3,288,438

AR-score:

348^th place

878,164

+28,415

F-score:

242^nd place

2,872

+12

German Wikipedia (de)

PR-score:

248^th place

7,974,852

-19,847

AR-score:

248^th place

1,237,131

+14,267

F-score:

294^th place

2,216

+36

Italian Wikipedia (it)

PR-score:

115^th place

6,738,986

-3,539,443

AR-score:

112^th place

1,669,110

+13,450

F-score:

87^th place

4,912

+84

French Wikipedia (fr)

PR-score:

299^th place

5,284,506

-1,378,231

AR-score:

295^th place

1,082,472

+1,568

F-score:

324^th place

2,925

+42

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