Local government

Quality:

Local government - lowest tier of administration within a sovereign state. Article “Local government” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 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 “Local government”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1514 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 156 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 31409 times in all languages (5217^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #659 in November 2019
• Global: #4163 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4009 in March 2009
• Global: #11300 in April 2015

There are 35 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) Local government		63.9838
2	Chinese (zh) 地方政府		38.0923
3	Catalan (ca) Ajuntament		35.8185
4	Japanese (ja) 地方政府		35.6609
5	Danish (da) Kommunalret		35.3363
6	Spanish (es) Gobierno local		30.1204
7	Polish (pl) Administracja samorządowa		28.8381
8	Hebrew (he) רשות מקומית		27.9566
9	Hungarian (hu) Önkormányzat (fogalom)		24.5096
10	Hindi (hi) स्थानीय सरकार		23.785

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Local government		5 571 804
2	Spanish (es) Gobierno local		3 738 558
3	German (de) Kommunalverwaltung		839 088
4	Thai (th) การปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่น		704 788
5	Polish (pl) Administracja samorządowa		475 788
6	French (fr) Administration territoriale		414 368
7	Ukrainian (uk) Органи місцевого самоврядування		385 835
8	Turkish (tr) Yerel yönetim		347 697
9	Chinese (zh) 地方政府		273 778
10	Hebrew (he) רשות מקומית		242 462

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) Local government		16 139
2	Spanish (es) Gobierno local		2 319
3	Chinese (zh) 地方政府		1 080
4	Simple English (simple) Local government		845
5	Ukrainian (uk) Органи місцевого самоврядування		690
6	Russian (ru) Местная администрация		657
7	French (fr) Administration territoriale		632
8	German (de) Kommunalverwaltung		584
9	Japanese (ja) 地方政府		584
10	Hebrew (he) רשות מקומית		559

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Local government		588
2	Spanish (es) Gobierno local		185
3	French (fr) Administration territoriale		108
4	Hebrew (he) רשות מקומית		103
5	Chinese (zh) 地方政府		77
6	German (de) Kommunalverwaltung		62
7	Catalan (ca) Ajuntament		42
8	Turkish (tr) Yerel yönetim		39
9	Swedish (sv) Kommunal självstyrelse		31
10	Japanese (ja) 地方政府		25

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) Local government		3
2	Danish (da) Kommunalret		1
3	Chinese (zh) 地方政府		1
4	Arabic (ar) حكومة محلية		0
5	Catalan (ca) Ajuntament		0
6	Czech (cs) Místní samospráva		0
7	German (de) Kommunalverwaltung		0
8	Greek (el) Τοπική κυβέρνηση		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Loka administracio		0
10	Spanish (es) Gobierno local		0

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

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