Handover of Hong Kong

Quality:

Handover of Hong Kong - transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. Article “Handover of Hong Kong” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Handover of Hong Kong”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1147 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6063 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #712 in December 2020
• Global: #3739 in July 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #16309 in June 2025
• Global: #3356 in August 2019

There are 21 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	Chinese (zh) 香港回歸		92.2834
2	Hindi (hi) हांग कांग का हस्तांतरण		77.5
3	English (en) Handover of Hong Kong		71.5354
4	Swedish (sv) Hongkongs överföring		36.1514
5	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển giao Hồng Kông		29.4688
6	Finnish (fi) Hongkongin suvereniteetin siirto		28.7215
7	Slovak (sk) Odovzdanie Hongkongu Číne		27.7075
8	Simple English (simple) Handover of Hong Kong		26.6764
9	Japanese (ja) 香港返還		26.4519
10	Portuguese (pt) Transferência da soberania de Hong Kong		26.3196

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Handover of Hong Kong		5 329 999
2	Chinese (zh) 香港回歸		2 123 457
3	Japanese (ja) 香港返還		969 243
4	Spanish (es) Transferencia de soberanía de Hong Kong		402 252
5	Russian (ru) Передача Гонконга КНР		354 431
6	French (fr) Rétrocession de Hong Kong à la Chine		351 376
7	Korean (ko) 홍콩 반환		103 339
8	Portuguese (pt) Transferência da soberania de Hong Kong		42 551
9	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển giao Hồng Kông		31 547
10	Indonesian (id) Penyerahan kedaulatan atas Hong Kong		22 849

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) Handover of Hong Kong		26 330
2	Chinese (zh) 香港回歸		14 173
3	Japanese (ja) 香港返還		4 558
4	Russian (ru) Передача Гонконга КНР		3 079
5	Spanish (es) Transferencia de soberanía de Hong Kong		1 969
6	French (fr) Rétrocession de Hong Kong à la Chine		1 474
7	Korean (ko) 홍콩 반환		793
8	Simple English (simple) Handover of Hong Kong		512
9	Turkish (tr) Hong Kong üzerindeki egemenliğin devri		442
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển giao Hồng Kông		420

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Handover of Hong Kong		481
2	Chinese (zh) 香港回歸		447
3	Japanese (ja) 香港返還		63
4	Spanish (es) Transferencia de soberanía de Hong Kong		28
5	Russian (ru) Передача Гонконга КНР		27
6	French (fr) Rétrocession de Hong Kong à la Chine		26
7	Ukrainian (uk) Передача Гонконгу		12
8	Korean (ko) 홍콩 반환		11
9	Malay (ms) Penyerahan Hong Kong		7
10	Finnish (fi) Hongkongin suvereniteetin siirto		6

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) Handover of Hong Kong		4
2	Chinese (zh) 香港回歸		4
3	Swedish (sv) Hongkongs överföring		3
4	Russian (ru) Передача Гонконга КНР		2
5	Finnish (fi) Hongkongin suvereniteetin siirto		1
6	Arabic (ar) نقل سيادة هونغ كونغ		0
7	Spanish (es) Transferencia de soberanía de Hong Kong		0
8	Persian (fa) واگذاری هنگ کنگ		0
9	French (fr) Rétrocession de Hong Kong à la Chine		0
10	Hindi (hi) हांग कांग का हस्तांतरण		0

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

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