Japan

Quality:

Japan - island country in East Asia. Article “Japan” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 69 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 73^rd most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

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The 55^th most editable in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 23^rd most popular in all topics.

The 12^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 381^st most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 338^th most editable in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 217^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 362^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Japan” was edited by 1 authors in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (338^th place) and written by 100 authors in all languages (362^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Japan”, its content was written by 34 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (55^th place) and edited by 19002 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (12^th place).

The article is cited 7034 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (16^th place) and cited 1826624 times in all languages (37^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #12 in May 2019
• Global: #5 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #24 in July 2014
• Global: #3 in March 2011

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 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	Spanish (es) Japón		100
2	Turkish (tr) Japonya		100
3	Korean (ko) 일본		100
4	Thai (th) ประเทศญี่ปุ่น		100
5	Serbian (sr) Јапан		100
6	Slovenian (sl) Japonska		100
7	Malay (ms) Jepun		100
8	Latin (la) Iaponia		100
9	Esperanto (eo) Japanio		99.8825
10	Japanese (ja) 日本		99.5024

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Japan		125 156 697
2	Japanese (ja) 日本		45 704 584
3	Spanish (es) Japón		24 337 923
4	Russian (ru) Япония		21 871 682
5	German (de) Japan		19 248 786
6	Chinese (zh) 日本		16 849 185
7	French (fr) Japon		14 820 822
8	Indonesian (id) Jepang		13 310 987
9	Portuguese (pt) Japão		11 354 597
10	Italian (it) Giappone		10 494 675

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) Japan		347 769
2	Japanese (ja) 日本		166 483
3	Spanish (es) Japón		63 340
4	Chinese (zh) 日本		57 298
5	Russian (ru) Япония		48 395
6	German (de) Japan		47 451
7	French (fr) Japon		39 553
8	Portuguese (pt) Japão		31 194
9	Italian (it) Giappone		30 772
10	Indonesian (id) Jepang		27 790

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Japan		3 719
2	Japanese (ja) 日本		1 480
3	French (fr) Japon		1 086
4	German (de) Japan		1 048
5	Spanish (es) Japón		1 030
6	Chinese (zh) 日本		1 008
7	Italian (it) Giappone		690
8	Russian (ru) Япония		629
9	Polish (pl) Japonia		494
10	Dutch (nl) Japan		481

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	Spanish (es) Japón		19
2	English (en) Japan		18
3	Japanese (ja) 日本		13
4	French (fr) Japon		6
5	Indonesian (id) Jepang		5
6	Italian (it) Giappone		5
7	Galician (gl) Xapón		3
8	Vietnamese (vi) Nhật Bản		3
9	Czech (cs) Japonsko		2
10	Danish (da) Japan		2

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Tiril Eckhoff, Mekanisk spenning, Drøvtygging, Silvio Berlusconi, Jortedyr, Biristrand, Bengal, Rotknoll, Knutekål, Flåm-Aurland-Kaupanger-Årdalstangen.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information