Border states (American Civil War)

Border state - slave state that had not declared a secession from the Union during the American Civil War. Article “Border states (American Civil War)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 73 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 70 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Border states (American Civil War)”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 572 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 122 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2800 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #364 in January 2017
• Global: #10518 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2699 in May 2021
• Global: #31010 in June 2020

There are 17 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, 2025 (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	English (en) Border states (American Civil War)		79.5102
2	Simple English (simple) Border states (American Civil War)		72.9761
3	Hebrew (he) מדינות הגבול		49.8524
4	Spanish (es) Estados fronterizos (guerra civil estadounidense)		45.2233
5	Italian (it) Stati cuscinetto nella guerra di secessione americana		35.29
6	French (fr) États limitrophes		34.0209
7	Greek (el) Συνοριακές Πολιτείες (Αμερικανικός Εμφύλιος Πόλεμος)		33.5042
8	Polish (pl) Stany graniczne (wojna secesyjna)		33.0229
9	Chinese (zh) 边境州		30.0621
10	Arabic (ar) الولايات الحدودية (الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية)		27.7252

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Border states (American Civil War)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Border states (American Civil War)		3 365 288
2	French (fr) États limitrophes		99 901
3	Polish (pl) Stany graniczne (wojna secesyjna)		85 626
4	Italian (it) Stati cuscinetto nella guerra di secessione americana		68 445
5	Spanish (es) Estados fronterizos (guerra civil estadounidense)		54 478
6	Simple English (simple) Border states (American Civil War)		33 247
7	Japanese (ja) 境界州		20 002
8	Hebrew (he) מדינות הגבול		15 559
9	Greek (el) Συνοριακές Πολιτείες (Αμερικανικός Εμφύλιος Πόλεμος)		14 269
10	Danish (da) Grænsestater (amerikanske borgerkrig)		10 136

More...

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 "Border states (American Civil War)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Border states (American Civil War)		11 424
2	Simple English (simple) Border states (American Civil War)		861
3	Spanish (es) Estados fronterizos (guerra civil estadounidense)		319
4	French (fr) États limitrophes		294
5	Polish (pl) Stany graniczne (wojna secesyjna)		252
6	Italian (it) Stati cuscinetto nella guerra di secessione americana		195
7	Hebrew (he) מדינות הגבול		182
8	Japanese (ja) 境界州		139
9	Chinese (zh) 边境州		100
10	Greek (el) Συνοριακές Πολιτείες (Αμερικανικός Εμφύλιος Πόλεμος)		75

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Border states (American Civil War)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Border states (American Civil War)		317
2	French (fr) États limitrophes		60
3	Hebrew (he) מדינות הגבול		33
4	Italian (it) Stati cuscinetto nella guerra di secessione americana		32
5	Norwegian (no) Grensestatene		22
6	Polish (pl) Stany graniczne (wojna secesyjna)		17
7	Spanish (es) Estados fronterizos (guerra civil estadounidense)		15
8	Greek (el) Συνοριακές Πολιτείες (Αμερικανικός Εμφύλιος Πόλεμος)		14
9	Simple English (simple) Border states (American Civil War)		13
10	Latin (la) Civitas finitima (Bellum Civile Americanum)		12

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Border states (American Civil War)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Border states (American Civil War)		3
2	Arabic (ar) الولايات الحدودية (الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية)		1
3	Polish (pl) Stany graniczne (wojna secesyjna)		1
4	Russian (ru) Пограничные штаты (США)		1
5	Chinese (zh) 边境州		1
6	Danish (da) Grænsestater (amerikanske borgerkrig)		0
7	Greek (el) Συνοριακές Πολιτείες (Αμερικανικός Εμφύλιος Πόλεμος)		0
8	Spanish (es) Estados fronterizos (guerra civil estadounidense)		0
9	French (fr) États limitrophes		0
10	Hebrew (he) מדינות הגבול		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Border states (American Civil War)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Border states (American Civil War)		1 107
2	French (fr) États limitrophes		721
3	Italian (it) Stati cuscinetto nella guerra di secessione americana		337
4	Arabic (ar) الولايات الحدودية (الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية)		124
5	Simple English (simple) Border states (American Civil War)		122
6	Chinese (zh) 边境州		112
7	Japanese (ja) 境界州		104
8	Swedish (sv) Gränsstaterna		67
9	Hebrew (he) מדינות הגבול		30
10	Polish (pl) Stany graniczne (wojna secesyjna)		21

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الولايات الحدودية (الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية)
da	Danish Grænsestater (amerikanske borgerkrig)
el	Greek Συνοριακές Πολιτείες (Αμερικανικός Εμφύλιος Πόλεμος)
en	English Border states (American Civil War)
es	Spanish Estados fronterizos (guerra civil estadounidense)
fr	French États limitrophes
he	Hebrew מדינות הגבול
it	Italian Stati cuscinetto nella guerra di secessione americana
ja	Japanese 境界州
ko	Korean 경계주
la	Latin Civitas finitima (Bellum Civile Americanum)
no	Norwegian Grensestatene
pl	Polish Stany graniczne (wojna secesyjna)
ru	Russian Пограничные штаты (США)
simple	Simple English Border states (American Civil War)
sv	Swedish Gränsstaterna
zh	Chinese 边境州

Best Rank

Simple English: #2699 05.2021

Global: #31010 06.2020

Best Rank

Simple English: #364 01.2017

Global: #10518 01.2004

On 28 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2025–26 UEFA Champions League, Nipah virus, Doomsday Clock, UEFA Champions League, Elena Rybakina, Donald Trump, 2026 European Men's Handball Championship, killing of Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem, deaths in 2026.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, Pornhub, XXXTentacion, XVideos, List of people who have walked on the Moon, Manon Bannerman, Ajit Pawar, List of U.S. states, List of sex positions.

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information