East India Company

Quality:

East India Company - British trading company (1600–1874). This company is the 71^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 76^th most popular company in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “East India Company” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 6349^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 76^th most popular in business in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4136^th most popular in all topics.

The 4252^nd most popular in AI.

The 71^st most popular in business.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5107^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5667^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 3869 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4252^nd place).

East India Company is on the 76^th place in local ranking of business in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 71^st place in global ranking of business in all the time.

The article is cited 178 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 33119 times in all languages (5122^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #300 in September 2016
• Global: #591 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2622 in October 2021
• Global: #852 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, 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	Hindi (hi) ईस्ट इण्डिया कम्पनी		100
2	English (en) East India Company		91.2173
3	Hungarian (hu) Brit Kelet-indiai Társaság		88.1302
4	Spanish (es) Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales		70.0415
5	Azerbaijani (az) Ost-Hind şirkəti (Böyük Britaniya)		58.3592
6	French (fr) Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales		56.4575
7	Catalan (ca) Companyia Britànica de les Índies Orientals		55.678
8	Portuguese (pt) Companhia Britânica das Índias Orientais		55.19
9	Japanese (ja) イギリス東インド会社		50.6755
10	Urdu (ur) برطانوی ایسٹ انڈیا کمپنی		50.5428

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) East India Company		31 224 867
2	Russian (ru) Британская Ост-Индская компания		2 310 323
3	German (de) Britische Ostindien-Kompanie		1 904 698
4	Japanese (ja) イギリス東インド会社		1 699 171
5	Hindi (hi) ईस्ट इण्डिया कम्पनी		1 408 491
6	Spanish (es) Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales		1 362 878
7	Chinese (zh) 英国东印度公司		1 018 698
8	French (fr) Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales		849 393
9	Italian (it) Compagnia britannica delle Indie orientali		810 291
10	Polish (pl) Brytyjska Kompania Wschodnioindyjska		653 646

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		106 528
2	Russian (ru) Британская Ост-Индская компания		7 459
3	German (de) Britische Ostindien-Kompanie		5 894
4	Japanese (ja) イギリス東インド会社		5 166
5	Chinese (zh) 英国东印度公司		4 983
6	Spanish (es) Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales		4 330
7	French (fr) Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales		3 219
8	Italian (it) Compagnia britannica delle Indie orientali		2 388
9	Polish (pl) Brytyjska Kompania Wschodnioindyjska		2 003
10	Persian (fa) کمپانی هند شرقی بریتانیا		1 841

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		1 606
2	German (de) Britische Ostindien-Kompanie		245
3	French (fr) Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales		186
4	Russian (ru) Британская Ост-Индская компания		130
5	Dutch (nl) Britse Oost-Indische Compagnie		129
6	Chinese (zh) 英国东印度公司		117
7	Japanese (ja) イギリス東インド会社		115
8	Spanish (es) Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales		104
9	Italian (it) Compagnia britannica delle Indie orientali		91
10	Hebrew (he) חברת הודו המזרחית הבריטית		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		11
2	Azerbaijani (az) Ost-Hind şirkəti (Böyük Britaniya)		2
3	Catalan (ca) Companyia Britànica de les Índies Orientals		2
4	Arabic (ar) شركة الهند الشرقية		1
5	Czech (cs) Britská Východoindická společnost		1
6	Galician (gl) Compañía Británica das Indias Orientais		1
7	Hebrew (he) חברת הודו המזרחית הבריטית		1
8	Italian (it) Compagnia britannica delle Indie orientali		1
9	Japanese (ja) イギリス東インド会社		1
10	Georgian (ka) ბრიტანეთის ოსტინდოეთის კომპანია		1

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

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