European exploration of Africa

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European exploration of Africa

Quality:

European exploration of Africa - aspect of history. Article “European exploration of Africa” in English Wikipedia has 55.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.18 points.

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

Since the creation of article “European exploration of Africa”, its content was written by 244 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 515 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 315 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1020 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #19290 in November 2006
  • Global: #27953 in January 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #89951 in October 2019
  • Global: #86893 in November 2021

There are 17 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Ukrainian (uk)
Історія дослідження Африки
84.3491
2Slovenian (sl)
Evropska raziskovanja Afrike
61.162
3Catalan (ca)
Exploració europea de l'Àfrica
56.9343
4English (en)
European exploration of Africa
55.6293
5Portuguese (pt)
Exploração europeia da África
49.5911
6Russian (ru)
Изучение Африки европейцами
48.118
7Romanian (ro)
Explorarea Africii de către europeni
47.8661
8French (fr)
Exploration européenne de l'Afrique
35.7662
9Polish (pl)
Odkrycia i badania Afryki
30.0468
10Esperanto (eo)
Esplorado de Afriko
27.2755
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "European exploration of Africa" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
European exploration of Africa
1 592 255
2French (fr)
Exploration européenne de l'Afrique
303 295
3Spanish (es)
Exploraciones europeas de África
153 388
4Polish (pl)
Odkrycia i badania Afryki
122 093
5German (de)
Entdeckungsgeschichte Afrikas
118 251
6Russian (ru)
Изучение Африки европейцами
91 015
7Lithuanian (lt)
Geografiniai atradimai Afrikoje
30 349
8Ukrainian (uk)
Історія дослідження Африки
28 807
9Arabic (ar)
الاستكشاف الأوروبي لقارة إفريقيا
20 010
10Romanian (ro)
Explorarea Africii de către europeni
11 295
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "European exploration of Africa" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
European exploration of Africa
4 532
2French (fr)
Exploration européenne de l'Afrique
563
3Spanish (es)
Exploraciones europeas de África
331
4German (de)
Entdeckungsgeschichte Afrikas
299
5Russian (ru)
Изучение Африки европейцами
295
6Polish (pl)
Odkrycia i badania Afryki
213
7Portuguese (pt)
Exploração europeia da África
204
8Arabic (ar)
الاستكشاف الأوروبي لقارة إفريقيا
62
9Catalan (ca)
Exploració europea de l'Àfrica
58
10Chinese (zh)
非洲地理考察
54
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "European exploration of Africa" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
European exploration of Africa
244
2German (de)
Entdeckungsgeschichte Afrikas
88
3Polish (pl)
Odkrycia i badania Afryki
51
4French (fr)
Exploration européenne de l'Afrique
35
5Spanish (es)
Exploraciones europeas de África
26
6Lithuanian (lt)
Geografiniai atradimai Afrikoje
17
7Russian (ru)
Изучение Африки европейцами
16
8Ukrainian (uk)
Історія дослідження Африки
11
9Catalan (ca)
Exploració europea de l'Àfrica
7
10Esperanto (eo)
Esplorado de Afriko
7
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "European exploration of Africa" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
Изучение Африки европейцами
2
2Slovenian (sl)
Evropska raziskovanja Afrike
2
3Arabic (ar)
الاستكشاف الأوروبي لقارة إفريقيا
0
4Catalan (ca)
Exploració europea de l'Àfrica
0
5German (de)
Entdeckungsgeschichte Afrikas
0
6English (en)
European exploration of Africa
0
7Esperanto (eo)
Esplorado de Afriko
0
8Spanish (es)
Exploraciones europeas de África
0
9Persian (fa)
اکتشاف آفریقا
0
10French (fr)
Exploration européenne de l'Afrique
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "European exploration of Africa" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
European exploration of Africa
315
2German (de)
Entdeckungsgeschichte Afrikas
204
3Chinese (zh)
非洲地理考察
177
4Arabic (ar)
الاستكشاف الأوروبي لقارة إفريقيا
94
5Persian (fa)
اکتشاف آفریقا
64
6French (fr)
Exploration européenne de l'Afrique
64
7Ukrainian (uk)
Історія дослідження Африки
42
8Spanish (es)
Exploraciones europeas de África
25
9Esperanto (eo)
Esplorado de Afriko
8
10Russian (ru)
Изучение Африки европейцами
7
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الاستكشاف الأوروبي لقارة إفريقيا
caCatalan
Exploració europea de l'Àfrica
deGerman
Entdeckungsgeschichte Afrikas
enEnglish
European exploration of Africa
eoEsperanto
Esplorado de Afriko
esSpanish
Exploraciones europeas de África
faPersian
اکتشاف آفریقا
frFrench
Exploration européenne de l'Afrique
ltLithuanian
Geografiniai atradimai Afrikoje
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Europeisk utforsking av Afrika
plPolish
Odkrycia i badania Afryki
ptPortuguese
Exploração europeia da África
roRomanian
Explorarea Africii de către europeni
ruRussian
Изучение Африки европейцами
slSlovenian
Evropska raziskovanja Afrike
ukUkrainian
Історія дослідження Африки
zhChinese
非洲地理考察

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#89951
10.2019
Global:
#86893
11.2021

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#19290
11.2006
Global:
#27953
01.2025

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on European exploration of Africa from Wikipedia articles about David Livingstone, Colonisation of Africa, Roman expeditions to lake Chad and western Africa, Kenya and Scramble for Africa. Whereas reading the article about European exploration of Africa people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Mountains of the Moon, Prince Henry the Navigator, David Livingstone, Age of Discovery and Bartolomeu Dias.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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