List of provinces of Japan

List of provinces of Japan - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of provinces of Japan” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 15 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “List of provinces of Japan”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 164 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 120 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1687 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1341 in May 2014
• Global: #10309 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3689 in December 2015
• Global: #108903 in August 2008

There are 10 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) 令制國列表		90
2	Simple English (simple) List of provinces of Japan		44.485
3	Portuguese (pt) Lista de províncias do Japão antigo		26.8575
4	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách tỉnh cũ của Nhật Bản		22.8067
5	Czech (cs) Seznam japonských provincií		21.7254
6	Persian (fa) فهرست استان‌های سابق ژاپن		20.3842
7	Slovak (sk) Zoznam japonských provincií		19.8897
8	Japanese (ja) 令制国一覧		19.4224
9	Korean (ko) 율령국 목록		16.8569
10	Esperanto (eo) Listo de historiaj provincoj de Japanio		14.8668

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

The most popular language versions of the article "List of provinces of Japan" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 令制国一覧		1 576 349
2	Chinese (zh) 令制國列表		275 278
3	Simple English (simple) List of provinces of Japan		31 165
4	Korean (ko) 율령국 목록		18 489
5	Portuguese (pt) Lista de províncias do Japão antigo		8 981
6	Persian (fa) فهرست استان‌های سابق ژاپن		8 094
7	Slovak (sk) Zoznam japonských provincií		4 206
8	Esperanto (eo) Listo de historiaj provincoj de Japanio		2 694
9	Czech (cs) Seznam japonských provincií		2 229
10	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách tỉnh cũ của Nhật Bản		2 138

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "List of provinces of Japan" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 令制国一覧		3 905
2	Chinese (zh) 令制國列表		2 029
3	Simple English (simple) List of provinces of Japan		95
4	Persian (fa) فهرست استان‌های سابق ژاپن		64
5	Slovak (sk) Zoznam japonských provincií		52
6	Korean (ko) 율령국 목록		43
7	Portuguese (pt) Lista de províncias do Japão antigo		36
8	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách tỉnh cũ của Nhật Bản		28
9	Esperanto (eo) Listo de historiaj provincoj de Japanio		21
10	Czech (cs) Seznam japonských provincií		14

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

Language versions of the article "List of provinces of Japan" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 令制国一覧		64
2	Chinese (zh) 令制國列表		41
3	Simple English (simple) List of provinces of Japan		13
4	Czech (cs) Seznam japonských provincií		10
5	Esperanto (eo) Listo de historiaj provincoj de Japanio		9
6	Slovak (sk) Zoznam japonských provincií		8
7	Korean (ko) 율령국 목록		6
8	Portuguese (pt) Lista de províncias do Japão antigo		6
9	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách tỉnh cũ của Nhật Bản		4
10	Persian (fa) فهرست استان‌های سابق ژاپن		3

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

Language versions of the article "List of provinces of Japan" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Esperanto (eo) Listo de historiaj provincoj de Japanio		1
2	Czech (cs) Seznam japonských provincií		0
3	Persian (fa) فهرست استان‌های سابق ژاپن		0
4	Japanese (ja) 令制国一覧		0
5	Korean (ko) 율령국 목록		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista de províncias do Japão antigo		0
7	Simple English (simple) List of provinces of Japan		0
8	Slovak (sk) Zoznam japonských provincií		0
9	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách tỉnh cũ của Nhật Bản		0
10	Chinese (zh) 令制國列表		0

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

Language versions of the article "List of provinces of Japan" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 令制国一覧		965
2	Chinese (zh) 令制國列表		203
3	Persian (fa) فهرست استان‌های سابق ژاپن		183
4	Simple English (simple) List of provinces of Japan		120
5	Korean (ko) 율령국 목록		111
6	Czech (cs) Seznam japonských provincií		88
7	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách tỉnh cũ của Nhật Bản		10
8	Portuguese (pt) Lista de províncias do Japão antigo		4
9	Esperanto (eo) Listo de historiaj provincoj de Japanio		2
10	Slovak (sk) Zoznam japonských provincií		1

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Seznam japonských provincií
eo	Esperanto Listo de historiaj provincoj de Japanio
fa	Persian فهرست استان‌های سابق ژاپن
ja	Japanese 令制国一覧
ko	Korean 율령국 목록
pt	Portuguese Lista de províncias do Japão antigo
simple	Simple English List of provinces of Japan
sk	Slovak Zoznam japonských provincií
vi	Vietnamese Danh sách tỉnh cũ của Nhật Bản
zh	Chinese 令制國列表

Best Rank

Simple English: #3689 12.2015

Global: #108903 08.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #1341 05.2014

Global: #10309 10.2003

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