Sovereign state

Quality:

Sovereign state - state that has the highest authority over a territory. Article “Sovereign state” in English Wikipedia has 63.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 89 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.04 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Sovereign state” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sovereign state”, its content was written by 659 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1490 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 14049 times in English Wikipedia (1328^th place) and cited 48433 times in all languages (3385^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3012 in February 2005
• Global: #4646 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #969 in May 2011
• Global: #3157 in May 2011

There are 43 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	Indonesian (id) Negara berdaulat		65.4412
2	English (en) Sovereign state		63.3481
3	Portuguese (pt) Estado independente		62.5641
4	Catalan (ca) Estat sobirà		57.9146
5	Georgian (ka) სუვერენული სახელმწიფო		55.4922
6	Italian (it) Stato sovrano		53.1239
7	Chinese (zh) 主权国家		52.3043
8	Spanish (es) Estado soberano		49.2456
9	Korean (ko) 주권국		44.7924
10	Simple English (simple) Sovereign state		37.4688

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sovereign state		14 355 321
2	Spanish (es) Estado soberano		1 169 762
3	French (fr) État en droit international		924 132
4	Russian (ru) Суверенное государство		794 970
5	Chinese (zh) 主权国家		656 428
6	Japanese (ja) 主権国家体制		519 786
7	Indonesian (id) Negara berdaulat		333 075
8	Catalan (ca) Estat sobirà		324 016
9	Simple English (simple) Sovereign state		239 795
10	Persian (fa) کشور مستقل		204 712

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) Sovereign state		42 185
2	Spanish (es) Estado soberano		4 362
3	Chinese (zh) 主权国家		1 830
4	French (fr) État en droit international		1 631
5	Persian (fa) کشور مستقل		1 389
6	Simple English (simple) Sovereign state		1 296
7	Russian (ru) Суверенное государство		1 251
8	Japanese (ja) 主権国家体制		1 019
9	Swedish (sv) Suverän stat		848
10	Italian (it) Stato sovrano		535

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sovereign state		659
2	Catalan (ca) Estat sobirà		103
3	French (fr) État en droit international		74
4	Hindi (hi) सम्प्रभु राज्य		59
5	Spanish (es) Estado soberano		46
6	Simple English (simple) Sovereign state		38
7	Vietnamese (vi) Quốc gia có chủ quyền		36
8	Japanese (ja) 主権国家体制		32
9	Chinese (zh) 主权国家		30
10	Arabic (ar) دولة ذات سيادة		26

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	Catalan (ca) Estat sobirà		3
2	English (en) Sovereign state		3
3	Serbian (sr) Суверена држава		3
4	Arabic (ar) دولة ذات سيادة		2
5	Turkish (tr) Egemen devlet		2
6	Azerbaijani (az) Suveren dövlət		1
7	Indonesian (id) Negara berdaulat		1
8	Italian (it) Stato sovrano		1
9	Georgian (ka) სუვერენული სახელმწიფო		1
10	Belarusian (be) Суверэнная дзяржава		0

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

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