South Africa

Quality:

South Africa - country in southern Africa. Article "South Africa" in English Wikipedia has 93.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 391 references and 46 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 216^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 261^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 158^th most popular in all topics.

The 120^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 799^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 536^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1439^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "South Africa" was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 61 authors in all languages (1439^th place).

Since the creation of article "South Africa", its content was written by 2679 registered users of English Wikipedia (261^st place) and edited by 11263 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (120^th place).

The article is cited 89151 times in English Wikipedia (105^th place) and cited 409471 times in all languages (217^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #68 in April 2005
• Global: #23 in June 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22 in June 2010
• Global: #6 in June 2010

There are 55 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 August 1, 2024 (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) 南非		100
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Južnoafrička Republika		100
3	German (de) Südafrika		98.1492
4	Czech (cs) Jihoafrická republika		96.2397
5	Portuguese (pt) África do Sul		94.5997
6	Swedish (sv) Sydafrika		93.537
7	English (en) South Africa		93.2773
8	Finnish (fi) Etelä-Afrikka		93.1605
9	Serbian (sr) Јужноафричка Република		90.1888
10	Georgian (ka) სამხრეთ აფრიკის რესპუბლიკა		89.3101

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) South Africa		76 092 541
2	German (de) Südafrika		13 096 973
3	Spanish (es) Sudáfrica		12 610 400
4	French (fr) Afrique du Sud		11 276 640
5	Russian (ru) Южно-Африканская Республика		10 100 269
6	Portuguese (pt) África do Sul		8 440 420
7	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ共和国		6 573 910
8	Italian (it) Sudafrica		5 994 547
9	Polish (pl) Południowa Afryka		5 300 928
10	Dutch (nl) Zuid-Afrika		3 647 429

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) South Africa		332 803
2	Russian (ru) Южно-Африканская Республика		48 749
3	Spanish (es) Sudáfrica		39 863
4	French (fr) Afrique du Sud		38 009
5	German (de) Südafrika		37 296
6	Chinese (zh) 南非		23 274
7	Polish (pl) Południowa Afryka		21 639
8	Portuguese (pt) África do Sul		21 199
9	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ共和国		20 628
10	Italian (it) Sudafrica		18 549

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) South Africa		2 679
2	German (de) Südafrika		934
3	French (fr) Afrique du Sud		713
4	Dutch (nl) Zuid-Afrika		518
5	Spanish (es) Sudáfrica		509
6	Russian (ru) Южно-Африканская Республика		470
7	Italian (it) Sudafrica		409
8	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ共和国		317
9	Portuguese (pt) África do Sul		284
10	Polish (pl) Południowa Afryka		268

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	English (en) South Africa		10
2	Simple English (simple) South Africa		5
3	German (de) Südafrika		4
4	Thai (th) ประเทศแอฟริกาใต้		4
5	French (fr) Afrique du Sud		3
6	Hungarian (hu) Dél-afrikai Köztársaság		3
7	Dutch (nl) Zuid-Afrika		3
8	Russian (ru) Южно-Африканская Республика		3
9	Czech (cs) Jihoafrická republika		2
10	Spanish (es) Sudáfrica		2

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

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