Papua (Region)

Southern Region - administrative region of Papua New Guinea. Article “Papua (Region)” in German Wikipedia has 18.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Papua (Region)”, its content was written by 24 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 152 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 16 times in German Wikipedia and cited 552 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #68077 in January 2007
• Global: #69422 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #313990 in January 2008
• Global: #775814 in March 2008

There are 16 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	Spanish (es) Región de Papúa		20.4086
2	German (de) Papua (Region)		18.8681
3	Ukrainian (uk) Папуа (регіон)		17.2253
4	English (en) Southern Region, Papua New Guinea		14.4161
5	Italian (it) Regione di Papua		14.2192
6	Russian (ru) Папуа (регион)		11.5711
7	Korean (ko) 파푸아 지방		5.7604
8	Indonesian (id) Region Selatan, Papua Nugini		4.42
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lâm-pō͘ Tōa-khu		4.1893
10	Persian (fa) ناحیه پاپوآ		4.0601

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Papua (Region)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Southern Region, Papua New Guinea		86 776
2	French (fr) Région Papouasie		17 232
3	German (de) Papua (Region)		16 377
4	Russian (ru) Папуа (регион)		13 672
5	Japanese (ja) パプア地方		11 671
6	Spanish (es) Región de Papúa		9 619
7	Italian (it) Regione di Papua		8 975
8	Indonesian (id) Region Selatan, Papua Nugini		4 302
9	Persian (fa) ناحیه پاپوآ		3 251
10	Portuguese (pt) Região de Papua		2 390

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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 "Papua (Region)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Southern Region, Papua New Guinea		513
2	Spanish (es) Región de Papúa		56
3	Russian (ru) Папуа (регион)		51
4	French (fr) Région Papouasie		49
5	Japanese (ja) パプア地方		42
6	German (de) Papua (Region)		32
7	Indonesian (id) Region Selatan, Papua Nugini		28
8	Italian (it) Regione di Papua		20
9	Persian (fa) ناحیه پاپوآ		16
10	Portuguese (pt) Região de Papua		14

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

Language versions of the article "Papua (Region)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Southern Region, Papua New Guinea		30
2	French (fr) Région Papouasie		28
3	German (de) Papua (Region)		24
4	Italian (it) Regione di Papua		24
5	Russian (ru) Папуа (регион)		10
6	Spanish (es) Región de Papúa		7
7	Persian (fa) ناحیه پاپوآ		5
8	Japanese (ja) パプア地方		5
9	Portuguese (pt) Região de Papua		5
10	Indonesian (id) Region Selatan, Papua Nugini		3

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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 "Papua (Region)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Bulgarian (bg) Папуа (регион)		0
2	German (de) Papua (Region)		0
3	English (en) Southern Region, Papua New Guinea		0
4	Spanish (es) Región de Papúa		0
5	Persian (fa) ناحیه پاپوآ		0
6	French (fr) Région Papouasie		0
7	Indonesian (id) Region Selatan, Papua Nugini		0
8	Italian (it) Regione di Papua		0
9	Japanese (ja) パプア地方		0
10	Georgian (ka) პაპუა (რეგიონი)		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 "Papua (Region)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Southern Region, Papua New Guinea		84
2	French (fr) Région Papouasie		82
3	Italian (it) Regione di Papua		72
4	Russian (ru) Папуа (регион)		55
5	Japanese (ja) パプア地方		37
6	Ukrainian (uk) Папуа (регіон)		36
7	Persian (fa) ناحیه پاپوآ		34
8	Korean (ko) 파푸아 지방		30
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lâm-pō͘ Tōa-khu		27
10	Bulgarian (bg) Папуа (регион)		22

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Папуа (регион)
de	German Papua (Region)
en	English Southern Region, Papua New Guinea
es	Spanish Región de Papúa
fa	Persian ناحیه پاپوآ
fr	French Région Papouasie
id	Indonesian Region Selatan, Papua Nugini
it	Italian Regione di Papua
ja	Japanese パプア地方
ka	Georgian პაპუა (რეგიონი)
ko	Korean 파푸아 지방
pt	Portuguese Região de Papua
ru	Russian Папуа (регион)
uk	Ukrainian Папуа (регіон)
ur	Urdu پاپوا علاقہ (پاپوا نیو گنی)
zhminnan	Min Nan Lâm-pō͘ Tōa-khu

Best Rank

German: #313990 01.2008

Global: #775814 03.2008

Best Rank

German: #68077 01.2007

Global: #69422 09.2012

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