Nine Provinces

Nine Provinces - territorial division during the Xia and Shang dynasties. Article “Nine Provinces” in English Wikipedia has 22.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Nine Provinces”, its content was written by 55 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 205 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 97 times in English Wikipedia and cited 504 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #63322 in July 2014
• Global: #31430 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #463727 in June 2025
• Global: #229298 in October 2023

There are 10 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	Chinese (zh) 九州 (中国)		95.0685
2	Indonesian (id) Sembilan Provinsi		32.1929
3	Ukrainian (uk) Дев'ять провінцій		27.255
4	English (en) Nine Provinces		22.7194
5	Portuguese (pt) Nove Províncias (China)		21.7195
6	Czech (cs) Devět provincií		13.8443
7	Vietnamese (vi) Cửu Châu (Trung Quốc)		13.7655
8	Japanese (ja) 九州 (中国)		11.605
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kiú-chiu		4.4329
10	Korean (ko) 구주 (중국)		4.0768

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Nine Provinces" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Chinese (zh) 九州 (中国)		502 503
2	English (en) Nine Provinces		238 804
3	Japanese (ja) 九州 (中国)		161 878
4	Vietnamese (vi) Cửu Châu (Trung Quốc)		97 358
5	Korean (ko) 구주 (중국)		32 726
6	Indonesian (id) Sembilan Provinsi		2 278
7	Portuguese (pt) Nove Províncias (China)		2 163
8	Ukrainian (uk) Дев'ять провінцій		1 180
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kiú-chiu		307
10	Czech (cs) Devět provincií		158

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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 "Nine Provinces" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Chinese (zh) 九州 (中国)		4 036
2	English (en) Nine Provinces		2 139
3	Vietnamese (vi) Cửu Châu (Trung Quốc)		919
4	Japanese (ja) 九州 (中国)		808
5	Korean (ko) 구주 (중국)		168
6	Indonesian (id) Sembilan Provinsi		20
7	Portuguese (pt) Nove Províncias (China)		19
8	Ukrainian (uk) Дев'ять провінцій		10
9	Czech (cs) Devět provincií		7
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kiú-chiu		6

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 九州 (中国)		98
2	English (en) Nine Provinces		55
3	Japanese (ja) 九州 (中国)		21
4	Vietnamese (vi) Cửu Châu (Trung Quốc)		8
5	Korean (ko) 구주 (중국)		6
6	Portuguese (pt) Nove Províncias (China)		5
7	Ukrainian (uk) Дев'ять провінцій		4
8	Czech (cs) Devět provincií		3
9	Indonesian (id) Sembilan Provinsi		3
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kiú-chiu		2

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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 "Nine Provinces" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Devět provincií		0
2	English (en) Nine Provinces		0
3	Indonesian (id) Sembilan Provinsi		0
4	Japanese (ja) 九州 (中国)		0
5	Korean (ko) 구주 (중국)		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Nove Províncias (China)		0
7	Ukrainian (uk) Дев'ять провінцій		0
8	Vietnamese (vi) Cửu Châu (Trung Quốc)		0
9	Chinese (zh) 九州 (中国)		0
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kiú-chiu		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 "Nine Provinces" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 九州 (中国)		276
2	English (en) Nine Provinces		97
3	Japanese (ja) 九州 (中国)		55
4	Indonesian (id) Sembilan Provinsi		23
5	Korean (ko) 구주 (중국)		19
6	Portuguese (pt) Nove Províncias (China)		13
7	Vietnamese (vi) Cửu Châu (Trung Quốc)		11
8	Ukrainian (uk) Дев'ять провінцій		7
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kiú-chiu		2
10	Czech (cs) Devět provincií		1

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Devět provincií
en	English Nine Provinces
id	Indonesian Sembilan Provinsi
ja	Japanese 九州 (中国)
ko	Korean 구주 (중국)
pt	Portuguese Nove Províncias (China)
uk	Ukrainian Дев'ять провінцій
vi	Vietnamese Cửu Châu (Trung Quốc)
zh	Chinese 九州 (中国)
zhminnan	Min Nan Kiú-chiu

Best Rank

English: #463727 06.2025

Global: #229298 10.2023

Best Rank

English: #63322 07.2014

Global: #31430 05.2004

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