European colonization of the Americas

Quality:

European colonization of the Americas - European colonization of the Americas between 1492 and c.1800. Article “European colonization of the Americas” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4966^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9677^th most popular in all topics.

The 7971^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3505^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “European colonization of the Americas”, its content was written by 35 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4966^th place) and edited by 2829 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7971^st place).

The article is cited 37 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6752 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #197 in December 2016
• Global: #462 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2497 in September 2008
• Global: #4431 in February 2014

There are 46 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) European colonization of the Americas		90.7762
2	Spanish (es) Colonización europea de América		80.8096
3	Greek (el) Αποικισμός της Αμερικής		71.9466
4	Hungarian (hu) Amerika gyarmatosítása		71.8086
5	Romanian (ro) Colonizarea europeană a Americii		69.3601
6	Bulgarian (bg) Европейска колонизация на Америка		68.5194
7	Turkish (tr) Amerikan kolonileri		63.9842
8	Georgian (ka) ამერიკის კოლონიზაცია ევროპელთა მიერ		63.8973
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Europeisk kolonisering av Amerika		45.1675
10	Swedish (sv) Europeiska koloniseringen av Amerika		44.8825

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Colonización europea de América		9 749 502
2	English (en) European colonization of the Americas		9 438 471
3	Portuguese (pt) Colonização europeia da América		1 939 245
4	Italian (it) Colonizzazione europea delle Americhe		1 314 785
5	Russian (ru) Европейская колонизация Америки		1 304 311
6	French (fr) Colonisation européenne des Amériques		603 615
7	Polish (pl) Europejska kolonizacja Ameryki		362 383
8	German (de) Europäische Kolonisierung Amerikas		343 494
9	Japanese (ja) ヨーロッパ諸国によるアメリカ大陸の植民地化		324 433
10	Chinese (zh) 美洲殖民		242 005

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) European colonization of the Americas		29 301
2	Spanish (es) Colonización europea de América		4 957
3	Russian (ru) Европейская колонизация Америки		3 565
4	Italian (it) Colonizzazione europea delle Americhe		2 168
5	French (fr) Colonisation européenne des Amériques		1 771
6	Turkish (tr) Amerikan kolonileri		1 639
7	German (de) Europäische Kolonisierung Amerikas		1 563
8	Simple English (simple) European colonization of the Americas		1 409
9	Japanese (ja) ヨーロッパ諸国によるアメリカ大陸の植民地化		1 025
10	Chinese (zh) 美洲殖民		1 006

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) European colonization of the Americas		1 014
2	Spanish (es) Colonización europea de América		353
3	Italian (it) Colonizzazione europea delle Americhe		250
4	Portuguese (pt) Colonização europeia da América		115
5	French (fr) Colonisation européenne des Amériques		112
6	German (de) Europäische Kolonisierung Amerikas		103
7	Russian (ru) Европейская колонизация Америки		102
8	Norwegian (no) Europeisk kolonisering av Amerika		83
9	Catalan (ca) Colonització europea d'Amèrica		49
10	Hungarian (hu) Amerika gyarmatosítása		48

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	Italian (it) Colonizzazione europea delle Americhe		3
2	English (en) European colonization of the Americas		2
3	Arabic (ar) الاستعمار الأوروبي للأمريكيتين		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Європейська колонізація Америки		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Şimali Amerikanın kolonizasiyası		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Европейска колонизация на Америка		0
7	Catalan (ca) Colonització europea d'Amèrica		0
8	Danish (da) Europæisk kolonisering af Amerika		0
9	German (de) Europäische Kolonisierung Amerikas		0
10	Greek (el) Αποικισμός της Αμερικής		0

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

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