West Africa

Quality:

West Africa - westernmost region of the African continent. Article "West Africa" in English Wikipedia has 95.2 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 180 references and 48 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In July 2024 the article "West Africa" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "West Africa", its content was written by 756 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2323 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5992 times in English Wikipedia (3515^th place) and cited 40560 times in all languages (3893^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1178 in August 2002
• Global: #1088 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7382 in October 2014
• Global: #6770 in August 2023

There are 54 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 August 1, 2024 (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) West Africa		95.2415
2	Slovenian (sl) Zahodna Afrika		76.1447
3	Swedish (sv) Västafrika		68.9217
4	French (fr) Afrique de l'Ouest		65.1403
5	Arabic (ar) غرب إفريقيا		56.9198
6	Hindi (hi) पश्चिमी अफ्रीका		47.375
7	Polish (pl) Afryka Zachodnia		44.2579
8	Finnish (fi) Länsi-Afrikka		36.3982
9	Thai (th) แอฟริกาตะวันตก		35.0491
10	German (de) Westafrika		34.967

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) West Africa		10 429 561
2	French (fr) Afrique de l'Ouest		2 179 989
3	Spanish (es) África Occidental		1 062 705
4	German (de) Westafrika		985 563
5	Portuguese (pt) África Ocidental		801 981
6	Russian (ru) Западная Африка		641 543
7	Arabic (ar) غرب إفريقيا		539 479
8	Japanese (ja) 西アフリカ		479 335
9	Italian (it) Africa occidentale		360 070
10	Polish (pl) Afryka Zachodnia		347 204

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) West Africa		41 196
2	French (fr) Afrique de l'Ouest		8 905
3	Spanish (es) África Occidental		4 695
4	German (de) Westafrika		3 283
5	Indonesian (id) Afrika Barat		3 118
6	Russian (ru) Западная Африка		2 873
7	Portuguese (pt) África Ocidental		2 550
8	Arabic (ar) غرب إفريقيا		2 315
9	Japanese (ja) 西アフリカ		2 300
10	Korean (ko) 서아프리카		2 250

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) West Africa		756
2	French (fr) Afrique de l'Ouest		193
3	German (de) Westafrika		140
4	Italian (it) Africa occidentale		107
5	Russian (ru) Западная Африка		85
6	Dutch (nl) West-Afrika		74
7	Spanish (es) África Occidental		67
8	Norwegian (no) Vest-Afrika		53
9	Japanese (ja) 西アフリカ		47
10	Croatian (hr) Zapadna Afrika		43

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) West Africa		4
2	Catalan (ca) Àfrica Occidental		1
3	German (de) Westafrika		1
4	Dutch (nl) West-Afrika		1
5	Romanian (ro) Africa Occidentală		1
6	Slovak (sk) Západná Afrika		1
7	Slovenian (sl) Zahodna Afrika		1
8	Thai (th) แอฟริกาตะวันตก		1
9	Chinese (zh) 西非		1
10	Arabic (ar) غرب إفريقيا		0

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

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