British Empire

Quality:

British Empire - overseas possessions of England and later the United Kingdom (1607–1997). Article “British Empire” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 17 references and 4 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:

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The 1286^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 783^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1327^th most popular in all topics.

The 714^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2538^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2694^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4321^st most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “British Empire”, its content was written by 96 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (783^rd place) and edited by 7240 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (714^th place).

The article is cited 509 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5242^nd place) and cited 75490 times in all languages (2272^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #51 in November 2016
• Global: #188 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #244 in May 2014
• Global: #254 in September 2022

There are 54 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) Britisches Weltreich		100
2	Persian (fa) امپراتوری بریتانیا		100
3	Turkish (tr) Britanya İmparatorluğu		100
4	Vietnamese (vi) Đế quốc Anh		100
5	Greek (el) Βρετανική Αυτοκρατορία		100
6	Hungarian (hu) Brit Birodalom		100
7	Thai (th) จักรวรรดิบริติช		100
8	Danish (da) Britiske Imperium		100
9	Malay (ms) Empayar British		100
10	Azerbaijani (az) Britaniya imperiyası		100

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) British Empire		42 147 105
2	Spanish (es) Imperio británico		5 776 481
3	Russian (ru) Британская империя		4 812 425
4	German (de) Britisches Weltreich		3 894 944
5	French (fr) Empire britannique		2 738 326
6	Japanese (ja) イギリス帝国		2 732 976
7	Chinese (zh) 大英帝国		2 238 605
8	Italian (it) Impero britannico		2 187 372
9	Portuguese (pt) Império Britânico		1 701 535
10	Polish (pl) Imperium brytyjskie		1 583 461

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) British Empire		125 961
2	Russian (ru) Британская империя		14 265
3	Japanese (ja) イギリス帝国		13 281
4	German (de) Britisches Weltreich		9 201
5	Spanish (es) Imperio británico		8 109
6	Chinese (zh) 大英帝国		7 950
7	French (fr) Empire britannique		6 901
8	Persian (fa) امپراتوری بریتانیا		6 625
9	Italian (it) Impero britannico		6 043
10	Turkish (tr) Britanya İmparatorluğu		4 470

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) British Empire		2 321
2	German (de) Britisches Weltreich		395
3	French (fr) Empire britannique		349
4	Spanish (es) Imperio británico		336
5	Russian (ru) Британская империя		292
6	Chinese (zh) 大英帝国		290
7	Italian (it) Impero britannico		272
8	Dutch (nl) Britse Rijk		201
9	Hebrew (he) האימפריה הבריטית		188
10	Japanese (ja) イギリス帝国		184

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	English (en) British Empire		3
2	Bulgarian (bg) Британска империя		2
3	German (de) Britisches Weltreich		2
4	Spanish (es) Imperio británico		2
5	French (fr) Empire britannique		2
6	Hungarian (hu) Brit Birodalom		2
7	Japanese (ja) イギリス帝国		2
8	Thai (th) จักรวรรดิบริติช		2
9	Chinese (zh) 大英帝国		2
10	Arabic (ar) الإمبراطورية البريطانية		1

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

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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