Successor state

Succession of states - process of transferring roles and responsibilities as states and their boundaries change. Article “Successor state” in English Wikipedia has 53.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 19 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Successor state” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Successor state”, its content was written by 280 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 630 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 600 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4615 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5119 in June 2003
• Global: #11093 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #52541 in November 2012
• Global: #77902 in November 2012

There are 28 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	Malay (ms) Penggantian negara		63.3026
2	English (en) Successor state		53.459
3	Chinese (zh) 國家繼承		42.8178
4	Swedish (sv) Statssuccession		42.4772
5	Finnish (fi) Valtioseuraanto		35.6959
6	Arabic (ar) الدول الخلف		26.4255
7	Czech (cs) Nástupnický stát		22.124
8	Vietnamese (vi) Nước thừa kế		20.6059
9	Armenian (hy) Պետությունների իրավահաջորդություն		19.9981
10	German (de) Nachfolgestaat		18.2706

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Successor state" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Successor state		1 524 227
2	Russian (ru) Правопреемство государств		307 037
3	German (de) Nachfolgestaat		204 272
4	Japanese (ja) 継承国		156 741
5	Spanish (es) Sucesión de Estados		118 191
6	Italian (it) Successione di Stati		99 887
7	Chinese (zh) 國家繼承		87 053
8	Portuguese (pt) Sucessão de Estados		68 659
9	Croatian (hr) Sukcesija država		52 464
10	French (fr) Succession d'États		46 484

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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 "Successor state" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Successor state		4 612
2	Japanese (ja) 継承国		1 015
3	Chinese (zh) 國家繼承		606
4	Russian (ru) Правопреемство государств		500
5	German (de) Nachfolgestaat		278
6	Italian (it) Successione di Stati		258
7	French (fr) Succession d'États		207
8	Portuguese (pt) Sucessão de Estados		169
9	Spanish (es) Sucesión de Estados		121
10	Polish (pl) Sukcesja państwa		84

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Successor state		280
2	German (de) Nachfolgestaat		58
3	Italian (it) Successione di Stati		31
4	Japanese (ja) 継承国		31
5	Chinese (zh) 國家繼承		31
6	Dutch (nl) Statenopvolging		24
7	Russian (ru) Правопреемство государств		23
8	Croatian (hr) Sukcesija država		18
9	Spanish (es) Sucesión de Estados		16
10	Czech (cs) Nástupnický stát		12

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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 "Successor state" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Successor state		1
2	Arabic (ar) الدول الخلف		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Правоприемственост на държави		0
4	Catalan (ca) Successió d'estats		0
5	Czech (cs) Nástupnický stát		0
6	German (de) Nachfolgestaat		0
7	Spanish (es) Sucesión de Estados		0
8	Estonian (et) Riigi õigusjärglus		0
9	Persian (fa) دولت جانشین		0
10	Finnish (fi) Valtioseuraanto		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 "Successor state" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Successione di Stati		2 659
2	English (en) Successor state		600
3	Russian (ru) Правопреемство государств		286
4	German (de) Nachfolgestaat		180
5	Japanese (ja) 継承国		146
6	Portuguese (pt) Sucessão de Estados		97
7	French (fr) Succession d'États		82
8	Chinese (zh) 國家繼承		70
9	Romanian (ro) Stat succesor		55
10	Spanish (es) Sucesión de Estados		53

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الدول الخلف
bg	Bulgarian Правоприемственост на държави
ca	Catalan Successió d'estats
cs	Czech Nástupnický stát
de	German Nachfolgestaat
en	English Successor state
es	Spanish Sucesión de Estados
et	Estonian Riigi õigusjärglus
fa	Persian دولت جانشین
fi	Finnish Valtioseuraanto
fr	French Succession d'États
hi	Hindi राज्य का उत्तराधिकार
hr	Croatian Sukcesija država
hy	Armenian Պետությունների իրավահաջորդություն
id	Indonesian Suksesi negara
it	Italian Successione di Stati
ja	Japanese 継承国
ko	Korean 국가승계
ms	Malay Penggantian negara
nl	Dutch Statenopvolging
pl	Polish Sukcesja państwa
pt	Portuguese Sucessão de Estados
ro	Romanian Stat succesor
ru	Russian Правопреемство государств
sr	Serbian Држава-континуитета
sv	Swedish Statssuccession
vi	Vietnamese Nước thừa kế
zh	Chinese 國家繼承

Best Rank

English: #52541 11.2012

Global: #77902 11.2012

Best Rank

English: #5119 06.2003

Global: #11093 06.2003

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