1940 Summer Olympics

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1940 Summer Olympics - Games of the XII Olympiad, firstly scheduled in Tokyo, Japan, rescheduled in Helsinki, Finland, finally canceled due to World War II. This event is the 1183^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 367^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “1940 Summer Olympics” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 367^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1183^rd most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “1940 Summer Olympics”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1160 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

1940 Summer Olympics is on the 367^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1183^rd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 78 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5546 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1192 in January 2013
• Global: #1395 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1972 in August 2008
• Global: #3642 in August 2008

There are 45 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	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1940		92.381
2	English (en) 1940 Summer Olympics		48.7612
3	Japanese (ja) 1940年東京オリンピック		34.014
4	Hebrew (he) אולימפיאדת הקיץ 1940		32.0874
5	Tamil (ta) 1940 கோடைக்கால ஒலிம்பிக் விளையாட்டுப் போட்டிகள்		27.7597
6	Polish (pl) Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1940		27.2723
7	Korean (ko) 1940년 하계 올림픽		26.7556
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sommar-OL 1940		25.8394
9	Azerbaijani (az) 1940 Yay Olimpiya Oyunları		24.473
10	Chinese (zh) 1940年夏季奥林匹克运动会		24.2335

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1940 Summer Olympics		2 244 487
2	Japanese (ja) 1940年東京オリンピック		1 903 915
3	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1940		508 429
4	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1940		370 479
5	Italian (it) Giochi della XII Olimpiade		267 214
6	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 1940		253 448
7	Polish (pl) Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1940		208 370
8	Chinese (zh) 1940年夏季奥林匹克运动会		199 285
9	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 1940		171 486
10	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1940		104 182

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) 1940 Summer Olympics		4 896
2	Japanese (ja) 1940年東京オリンピック		1 799
3	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1940		1 450
4	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1940		1 094
5	Italian (it) Giochi della XII Olimpiade		762
6	Chinese (zh) 1940年夏季奥林匹克运动会		700
7	Polish (pl) Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1940		502
8	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 1940		450
9	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 1940		386
10	Finnish (fi) Kesäolympialaiset 1940		244

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1940 Summer Olympics		196
2	Japanese (ja) 1940年東京オリンピック		113
3	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1940		102
4	Italian (it) Giochi della XII Olimpiade		66
5	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 1940		61
6	Dutch (nl) Olympische Zomerspelen 1940		49
7	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 1940		49
8	Chinese (zh) 1940年夏季奥林匹克运动会		49
9	Danish (da) Sommer-OL 1940		34
10	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1940		33

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	Japanese (ja) 1940年東京オリンピック		1
2	Tamil (ta) 1940 கோடைக்கால ஒலிம்பிக் விளையாட்டுப் போட்டிகள்		1
3	Turkish (tr) 1940 Yaz Olimpiyatları		1
4	Chinese (zh) 1940年夏季奥林匹克运动会		1
5	Arabic (ar) الألعاب الأولمبية الصيفية 1940		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) 1940 Yay Olimpiya Oyunları		0
7	Belarusian (be) Летнія Алімпійскія гульні 1940		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Летни олимпийски игри 1940		0
9	Catalan (ca) Jocs Olímpics d'Estiu de 1940		0
10	Czech (cs) Letní olympijské hry 1940		0

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

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