Prefect (France)

Prefect - French state's representative in a department or region. Article “Prefect (France)” in English Wikipedia has 29.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 4 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Prefect (France)” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Prefect (France)”, its content was written by 50 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 324 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 399 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3401 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #38156 in March 2005
• Global: #86085 in November 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #271508 in April 2010
• Global: #125785 in February 2015

There are 13 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	French (fr) Préfet (France)		51.894
2	Esperanto (eo) Prefekto (Francio)		39.003
3	Russian (ru) Префект (Франция)		33.7225
4	English (en) Prefect (France)		29.8619
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Prefekt (Francuska)		25.842
6	Basque (eu) Prefet		22.621
7	Indonesian (id) Prefek (Prancis)		18.3588
8	Chinese (zh) 法国省长及大区区长		14.9254
9	Arabic (ar) محافظ (فرنسا)		13.4985
10	Italian (it) Prefetto (ordinamento francese)		12.6841

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Prefect (France)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Préfet (France)		1 221 119
2	English (en) Prefect (France)		385 288
3	German (de) Präfekt (Frankreich)		140 788
4	Russian (ru) Префект (Франция)		103 874
5	Indonesian (id) Prefek (Prancis)		14 309
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tỉnh trưởng (Pháp)		11 179
7	Italian (it) Prefetto (ordinamento francese)		7 698
8	Danish (da) Præfektur (Frankrig)		7 677
9	Chinese (zh) 法国省长及大区区长		7 286
10	Arabic (ar) محافظ (فرنسا)		2 369

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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 "Prefect (France)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Préfet (France)		4 071
2	English (en) Prefect (France)		2 676
3	German (de) Präfekt (Frankreich)		481
4	Russian (ru) Префект (Франция)		369
5	Chinese (zh) 法国省长及大区区长		145
6	Italian (it) Prefetto (ordinamento francese)		91
7	Vietnamese (vi) Tỉnh trưởng (Pháp)		43
8	Arabic (ar) محافظ (فرنسا)		34
9	Danish (da) Præfektur (Frankrig)		31
10	Indonesian (id) Prefek (Prancis)		22

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Préfet (France)		177
2	English (en) Prefect (France)		50
3	German (de) Präfekt (Frankreich)		33
4	Russian (ru) Префект (Франция)		24
5	Italian (it) Prefetto (ordinamento francese)		8
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tỉnh trưởng (Pháp)		7
7	Danish (da) Præfektur (Frankrig)		6
8	Esperanto (eo) Prefekto (Francio)		5
9	Indonesian (id) Prefek (Prancis)		4
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Prefekt (Francuska)		4

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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 "Prefect (France)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Prefect (France)		3
2	French (fr) Préfet (France)		1
3	Arabic (ar) محافظ (فرنسا)		0
4	Danish (da) Præfektur (Frankrig)		0
5	German (de) Präfekt (Frankreich)		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Prefekto (Francio)		0
7	Basque (eu) Prefet		0
8	Indonesian (id) Prefek (Prancis)		0
9	Italian (it) Prefetto (ordinamento francese)		0
10	Russian (ru) Префект (Франция)		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 "Prefect (France)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Préfet (France)		1 684
2	German (de) Präfekt (Frankreich)		638
3	English (en) Prefect (France)		399
4	Danish (da) Præfektur (Frankrig)		213
5	Russian (ru) Префект (Франция)		129
6	Esperanto (eo) Prefekto (Francio)		89
7	Basque (eu) Prefet		89
8	Italian (it) Prefetto (ordinamento francese)		52
9	Chinese (zh) 法国省长及大区区长		29
10	Arabic (ar) محافظ (فرنسا)		22

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic محافظ (فرنسا)
da	Danish Præfektur (Frankrig)
de	German Präfekt (Frankreich)
en	English Prefect (France)
eo	Esperanto Prefekto (Francio)
eu	Basque Prefet
fr	French Préfet (France)
id	Indonesian Prefek (Prancis)
it	Italian Prefetto (ordinamento francese)
ru	Russian Префект (Франция)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Prefekt (Francuska)
vi	Vietnamese Tỉnh trưởng (Pháp)
zh	Chinese 法国省长及大区区长

Best Rank

English: #271508 04.2010

Global: #125785 02.2015

Best Rank

English: #38156 03.2005

Global: #86085 11.2020

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