East India Company

Quality:

East India Company - British trading company (1600–1874). This company is the 70^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 67^th most popular company in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “East India Company” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hindi 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 6101^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 67^th most popular in business in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4170^th most popular in all topics.

The 4284^th most popular in AI.

The 70^th most popular in business.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6229^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4555^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9169^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “East India Company”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3800 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4284^th place).

East India Company is on the 67^th place in local ranking of business in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 70^th place in global ranking of business in all the time.

The article is cited 166 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 31640 times in all languages (5184^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #300 in September 2016
• Global: #590 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2622 in October 2021
• Global: #850 in January 2017

There are 52 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	Hindi (hi) ईस्ट इण्डिया कम्पनी		100
2	English (en) East India Company		90.5888
3	Hungarian (hu) Brit Kelet-indiai Társaság		88.1617
4	Spanish (es) Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales		71.4934
5	French (fr) Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales		56.4483
6	Portuguese (pt) Companhia Britânica das Índias Orientais		55.4563
7	Japanese (ja) イギリス東インド会社		53.9377
8	Catalan (ca) Companyia Britànica de les Índies Orientals		53.2149
9	Chinese (zh) 英国东印度公司		48.9586
10	German (de) Britische Ostindien-Kompanie		48.9151

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) East India Company		29 728 201
2	Russian (ru) Британская Ост-Индская компания		2 123 213
3	German (de) Britische Ostindien-Kompanie		1 820 100
4	Japanese (ja) イギリス東インド会社		1 629 071
5	Hindi (hi) ईस्ट इण्डिया कम्पनी		1 372 312
6	Spanish (es) Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales		1 290 360
7	Chinese (zh) 英国东印度公司		955 909
8	French (fr) Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales		804 355
9	Italian (it) Compagnia britannica delle Indie orientali		772 042
10	Polish (pl) Brytyjska Kompania Wschodnioindyjska		622 977

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) East India Company		121 065
2	Russian (ru) Британская Ост-Индская компания		12 651
3	Hindi (hi) ईस्ट इण्डिया कम्पनी		7 927
4	Japanese (ja) イギリス東インド会社		6 040
5	Chinese (zh) 英国东印度公司		5 956
6	Spanish (es) Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales		4 522
7	German (de) Britische Ostindien-Kompanie		4 237
8	French (fr) Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales		3 173
9	Italian (it) Compagnia britannica delle Indie orientali		2 680
10	Polish (pl) Brytyjska Kompania Wschodnioindyjska		1 878

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) East India Company		1 557
2	German (de) Britische Ostindien-Kompanie		239
3	French (fr) Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales		183
4	Russian (ru) Британская Ост-Индская компания		128
5	Dutch (nl) Britse Oost-Indische Compagnie		126
6	Chinese (zh) 英国东印度公司		112
7	Japanese (ja) イギリス東インド会社		108
8	Spanish (es) Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales		102
9	Italian (it) Compagnia britannica delle Indie orientali		90
10	Norwegian (no) Det britiske ostindiske kompani		75

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) East India Company		14
2	Japanese (ja) イギリス東インド会社		3
3	German (de) Britische Ostindien-Kompanie		1
4	Spanish (es) Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales		1
5	French (fr) Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales		1
6	Russian (ru) Британская Ост-Индская компания		1
7	Chinese (zh) 英国东印度公司		1
8	Arabic (ar) شركة الهند الشرقية		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Ost-Hind şirkəti (Böyük Britaniya)		0
10	Belarusian (be) Брытанская Ост-Індская кампанія		0

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

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