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Quality:

List of sovereign states - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of sovereign states” in English Wikipedia has 68.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 218 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2532^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 814^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 471^st most popular in all topics.

The 466^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7978^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1030^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1683^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “List of sovereign states” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 49 authors in all languages (1683^rd place).

Since the creation of article “List of sovereign states”, its content was written by 2084 registered users of English Wikipedia (814^th place) and edited by 8361 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (466^th place).

The article is cited 103291 times in English Wikipedia (85^th place) and cited 1635947 times in all languages (42^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in March 2001
• Global: #1 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #173 in August 2010
• Global: #245 in August 2008

There are 49 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	German (de) Liste der Staaten der Erde		78.8122
2	Hindi (hi) विश्व के सभी देश		78.287
3	Korean (ko) 나라 목록		77.3925
4	Chinese (zh) 主权国家列表		73.7369
5	Polish (pl) Lista państw świata		69.1405
6	English (en) List of sovereign states		68.6428
7	Hebrew (he) מדינות לפי שם		66
8	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách quốc gia có chủ quyền		64.5869
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Verdas land		64.2607
10	Latin (la) Index civitatum sui iuris		64.0238

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of sovereign states		29 976 989
2	German (de) Liste der Staaten der Erde		14 808 492
3	French (fr) Liste des pays du monde		13 202 569
4	Russian (ru) Список государств		11 745 366
5	Turkish (tr) Ülkeler listesi		7 923 046
6	Polish (pl) Lista państw świata		6 449 573
7	Japanese (ja) 国の一覧		5 151 614
8	Italian (it) Stati del mondo		5 104 751
9	Arabic (ar) قائمة الدول		4 107 790
10	Persian (fa) فهرست کشورهای مستقل		2 881 515

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) List of sovereign states		69 648
2	German (de) Liste der Staaten der Erde		60 510
3	French (fr) Liste des pays du monde		45 111
4	Russian (ru) Список государств		34 777
5	Turkish (tr) Ülkeler listesi		33 998
6	Simple English (simple) List of countries		30 766
7	Polish (pl) Lista państw świata		23 899
8	Italian (it) Stati del mondo		16 568
9	Persian (fa) فهرست کشورهای مستقل		11 838
10	Japanese (ja) 国の一覧		11 167

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of sovereign states		2 084
2	German (de) Liste der Staaten der Erde		837
3	French (fr) Liste des pays du monde		581
4	Russian (ru) Список государств		417
5	Italian (it) Stati del mondo		314
6	Turkish (tr) Ülkeler listesi		304
7	Polish (pl) Lista państw świata		220
8	Simple English (simple) List of countries		204
9	Portuguese (pt) Lista de Estados soberanos		185
10	Arabic (ar) قائمة الدول		176

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	Simple English (simple) List of countries		13
2	French (fr) Liste des pays du monde		7
3	Turkish (tr) Ülkeler listesi		6
4	English (en) List of sovereign states		4
5	Polish (pl) Lista państw świata		4
6	Azerbaijani (az) Dünya ölkələrinin siyahısı		2
7	Czech (cs) Seznam států světa		2
8	German (de) Liste der Staaten der Erde		2
9	Arabic (ar) قائمة الدول		1
10	Greek (el) Κατάλογος χωρών		1

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

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