Shimane

Shimane Prefecture - prefecture of Japan. Article “Shimane” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 48.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.57 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Shimane”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 1399 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 206 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 24373 times in all languages (6932^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #2395 in December 2004
• Global: #3012 in April 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #29087 in January 2026
• Global: #36201 in August 2010

There are 46 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	Chinese (zh) 岛根县		100
2	English (en) Shimane Prefecture		67.2123
3	Japanese (ja) 島根県		58.0844
4	Georgian (ka) სიმანეს პრეფექტურა		57.587
5	Simple English (simple) Shimane Prefecture		54.5021
6	Portuguese (pt) Shimane		48.8927
7	Hungarian (hu) Simane prefektúra		46.9373
8	Indonesian (id) Prefektur Shimane		46.0933
9	Dutch (nl) Shimane (prefectuur)		45.9814
10	Korean (ko) 시마네현		42.1367

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 島根県		4 463 444
2	English (en) Shimane Prefecture		915 279
3	Chinese (zh) 岛根县		368 942
4	Korean (ko) 시마네현		103 671
5	Portuguese (pt) Shimane		71 960
6	Russian (ru) Симане		66 076
7	German (de) Präfektur Shimane		62 434
8	Spanish (es) Prefectura de Shimane		54 792
9	Polish (pl) Prefektura Shimane		54 262
10	French (fr) Préfecture de Shimane		54 201

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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 "Shimane" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 島根県		10 927
2	English (en) Shimane Prefecture		4 520
3	Chinese (zh) 岛根县		2 204
4	Korean (ko) 시마네현		360
5	Russian (ru) Симане		212
6	German (de) Präfektur Shimane		200
7	Spanish (es) Prefectura de Shimane		161
8	French (fr) Préfecture de Shimane		159
9	Vietnamese (vi) Shimane		138
10	Lithuanian (lt) Šimanės prefektūra		114

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 島根県		364
2	English (en) Shimane Prefecture		173
3	French (fr) Préfecture de Shimane		86
4	German (de) Präfektur Shimane		81
5	Italian (it) Prefettura di Shimane		63
6	Dutch (nl) Shimane (prefectuur)		59
7	Korean (ko) 시마네현		53
8	Vietnamese (vi) Shimane		49
9	Russian (ru) Симане		47
10	Chinese (zh) 岛根县		46

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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 "Shimane" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) شيمانه (محافظة)		1
2	Japanese (ja) 島根県		1
3	Azerbaijani (az) Şimane prefekturası		0
4	Belarusian (be) Сіманэ (прэфектура)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Шимане		0
6	Catalan (ca) Prefectura de Shimane		0
7	Czech (cs) Prefektura Šimane		0
8	Danish (da) Shimane-præfekturet		0
9	German (de) Präfektur Shimane		0
10	English (en) Shimane Prefecture		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 "Shimane" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 島根県		13 566
2	English (en) Shimane Prefecture		1 515
3	Korean (ko) 시마네현		1 503
4	Chinese (zh) 岛根县		1 451
5	Arabic (ar) شيمانه (محافظة)		722
6	French (fr) Préfecture de Shimane		413
7	German (de) Präfektur Shimane		350
8	Italian (it) Prefettura di Shimane		286
9	Russian (ru) Симане		240
10	Indonesian (id) Prefektur Shimane		233

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شيمانه (محافظة)
az	Azerbaijani Şimane prefekturası
be	Belarusian Сіманэ (прэфектура)
bg	Bulgarian Шимане
ca	Catalan Prefectura de Shimane
cs	Czech Prefektura Šimane
da	Danish Shimane-præfekturet
de	German Präfektur Shimane
en	English Shimane Prefecture
eo	Esperanto Gubernio Shimane
es	Spanish Prefectura de Shimane
et	Estonian Shimane prefektuur
eu	Basque Shimane (prefektura)
fa	Persian استان شیمانه
fi	Finnish Shimanen prefektuuri
fr	French Préfecture de Shimane
gl	Galician Prefectura de Shimane
he	Hebrew שימאנה (מחוז)
hr	Croatian Shimane (prefektura)
hu	Hungarian Simane prefektúra
hy	Armenian Սիմանե (պրեֆեկտուրա)
id	Indonesian Prefektur Shimane
it	Italian Prefettura di Shimane
ja	Japanese 島根県
ka	Georgian სიმანეს პრეფექტურა
ko	Korean 시마네현
lt	Lithuanian Šimanės prefektūra
ms	Malay Wilayah Shimane
nl	Dutch Shimane (prefectuur)
no	Norwegian Shimane (prefektur)
pl	Polish Prefektura Shimane
pt	Portuguese Shimane
ro	Romanian Prefectura Shimane
ru	Russian Симане
sh	Serbo-Croatian Prefektura Shimane
simple	Simple English Shimane Prefecture
sk	Slovak Šimane (prefektúra)
sr	Serbian Префектура Шимане
sv	Swedish Shimane prefektur
th	Thai จังหวัดชิมาเนะ
tr	Turkish Shimane
uk	Ukrainian Префектура Сімане
ur	Urdu شیمانے پریفیکچر
vi	Vietnamese Shimane
zh	Chinese 岛根县
zhminnan	Min Nan Simane-koān

Best Rank

Portuguese: #29087 01.2026

Global: #36201 08.2010

Best Rank

Portuguese: #2395 12.2004

Global: #3012 04.2012

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