Historic counties of England

Quality:

Historic county of England - geographical designations for areas of England, based on historical traditions. Article “Historic counties of England” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Historic counties of England”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 719 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 32 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4621 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1180 in February 2017
• Global: #2188 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #964 in August 2020
• Global: #54420 in September 2014

There are 23 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) Historic counties of England		100
2	Armenian (hy) Անգլիայի պատմական կոմսություններ		80.7827
3	Russian (ru) Исторические графства Англии		73.0789
4	Bulgarian (bg) Историческо графство		42.0089
5	Urdu (ur) انگلستان کی تاریخی کاؤنٹیاں		34.9371
6	French (fr) Comté traditionnel d'Angleterre		33.5516
7	Portuguese (pt) Condados históricos da Inglaterra		30.7352
8	Thai (th) เทศมณฑลในประวัติศาสตร์อังกฤษ		29.0363
9	Romanian (ro) Comitatele istorice ale Angliei		29.0176
10	Catalan (ca) Comtat històric d'Anglaterra		27.5967

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Historic counties of England		3 210 229
2	German (de) Traditionelle Grafschaften Englands		626 785
3	French (fr) Comté traditionnel d'Angleterre		388 961
4	Italian (it) Contee tradizionali dell'Inghilterra		142 615
5	Dutch (nl) Traditionele graafschappen van Engeland		114 865
6	Polish (pl) Historyczne hrabstwa Anglii		109 475
7	Russian (ru) Исторические графства Англии		78 836
8	Czech (cs) Anglická tradiční hrabství		75 497
9	Simple English (simple) Historic counties of England		65 689
10	Portuguese (pt) Condados históricos da Inglaterra		59 988

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) Historic counties of England		15 122
2	German (de) Traditionelle Grafschaften Englands		1 775
3	Russian (ru) Исторические графства Англии		754
4	French (fr) Comté traditionnel d'Angleterre		628
5	Dutch (nl) Traditionele graafschappen van Engeland		366
6	Italian (it) Contee tradizionali dell'Inghilterra		224
7	Simple English (simple) Historic counties of England		222
8	Czech (cs) Anglická tradiční hrabství		182
9	Slovenian (sl) Tradicionalne grofije Anglije		144
10	Portuguese (pt) Condados históricos da Inglaterra		131

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Historic counties of England		320
2	French (fr) Comté traditionnel d'Angleterre		89
3	German (de) Traditionelle Grafschaften Englands		76
4	Italian (it) Contee tradizionali dell'Inghilterra		47
5	Dutch (nl) Traditionele graafschappen van Engeland		33
6	Norwegian (no) Tradisjonelt grevskap (England)		25
7	Czech (cs) Anglická tradiční hrabství		20
8	Polish (pl) Historyczne hrabstwa Anglii		19
9	Russian (ru) Исторические графства Англии		16
10	Simple English (simple) Historic counties of England		13

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	Russian (ru) Исторические графства Англии		2
2	German (de) Traditionelle Grafschaften Englands		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Историческо графство		0
4	Catalan (ca) Comtat històric d'Anglaterra		0
5	Czech (cs) Anglická tradiční hrabství		0
6	English (en) Historic counties of England		0
7	Estonian (et) Ajalooline krahvkond		0
8	Finnish (fi) Luettelo Englannin historiallisista kreivikunnista		0
9	French (fr) Comté traditionnel d'Angleterre		0
10	Galician (gl) Condados históricos de Inglaterra		0

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

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