Departments of France

Quality:

Department of France - administrative subdivision in France. Article “Departments of France” in English Wikipedia has 64.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 26 references and 12 sections.

This article has the best quality in French Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3808^th most popular in all topics.

The 7400^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5944^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Departments of France” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Departments of France”, its content was written by 608 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2977 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7400^th place).

The article is cited 47636 times in English Wikipedia (237^th place) and cited 1036718 times in all languages (80^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #155 in June 2002
• Global: #211 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4529 in July 2022
• Global: #1557 in August 2010

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 July 1, 2026 (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	French (fr) Département français		91.5789
2	Estonian (et) Departemang (Prantsusmaa)		73.9425
3	Malay (ms) Jabatan di Perancis		66.1159
4	English (en) Departments of France		64.1105
5	German (de) Département		55.8692
6	Dutch (nl) Departementen van Frankrijk		55.508
7	Italian (it) Dipartimenti della Francia		42.3593
8	Spanish (es) Departamentos de Francia		40.4557
9	Croatian (hr) Francuski departmani		36.634
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tỉnh (Pháp)		35.6466

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Département français		25 024 585
2	English (en) Departments of France		9 532 408
3	German (de) Département		3 749 888
4	Spanish (es) Departamentos de Francia		2 358 264
5	Italian (it) Dipartimenti della Francia		1 692 680
6	Dutch (nl) Departementen van Frankrijk		1 513 325
7	Japanese (ja) フランスの地方行政区画		697 358
8	Portuguese (pt) Departamentos da França		599 741
9	Polish (pl) Departament (Francja)		503 652
10	Russian (ru) Департаменты Франции		396 371

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Département français		60 185
2	English (en) Departments of France		33 703
3	German (de) Département		13 894
4	Italian (it) Dipartimenti della Francia		6 261
5	Spanish (es) Departamentos de Francia		5 606
6	Dutch (nl) Departementen van Frankrijk		4 577
7	Japanese (ja) フランスの地方行政区画		2 527
8	Turkish (tr) Fransa'nın illeri		2 339
9	Polish (pl) Departament (Francja)		1 118
10	Portuguese (pt) Departamentos da França		1 115

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Departments of France		608
2	French (fr) Département français		552
3	German (de) Département		317
4	Italian (it) Dipartimenti della Francia		150
5	Dutch (nl) Departementen van Frankrijk		134
6	Spanish (es) Departamentos de Francia		89
7	Japanese (ja) フランスの地方行政区画		88
8	Russian (ru) Департаменты Франции		60
9	Finnish (fi) Ranskan departementit		57
10	Hebrew (he) מחוזות צרפת		50

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	French (fr) Département français		6
2	English (en) Departments of France		4
3	Catalan (ca) Departament francès		2
4	German (de) Département		1
5	Hindi (hi) फ्रांस के विभाग		1
6	Croatian (hr) Francuski departmani		1
7	Russian (ru) Департаменты Франции		1
8	Arabic (ar) أقاليم فرنسا		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Fransa departamentləri		0
10	Belarusian (be) Дэпартаменты Францыі		0

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

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