North Korea

Quality:

North Korea - sovereign state in East Asia. Article “North Korea” in Simple English Wikipedia has 65.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 23 references and 11 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1746^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 115^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 134^th most popular in all topics.

The 32^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 520^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 102^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 537^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 286^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “North Korea” was edited by 5 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (102^nd place) and written by 111 authors in all languages (286^th place).

Since the creation of article “North Korea”, its content was written by 207 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (115^th place) and edited by 16135 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (32^nd place).

The article is cited 847 times in Simple English Wikipedia (678^th place) and cited 142582 times in all languages (842^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #18 in December 2017
• Global: #2 in October 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #180 in April 2013
• Global: #6 in April 2017

There are 55 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, 2026 (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	German (de) Nordkorea		100
2	Greek (el) Βόρεια Κορέα		100
3	Bulgarian (bg) Северна Корея		100
4	Norwegian (no) Nord-Korea		100
5	Arabic (ar) كوريا الشمالية		98.9302
6	Portuguese (pt) Coreia do Norte		97.4805
7	English (en) North Korea		97.0661
8	Finnish (fi) Korean demokraattinen kansantasavalta		96.8783
9	Hungarian (hu) Észak-Korea		94.601
10	Chinese (zh) 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国		94.4169

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) North Korea		74 764 364
2	Russian (ru) Корейская Народно-Демократическая Республика		17 400 799
3	Japanese (ja) 朝鮮民主主義人民共和国		14 926 780
4	Spanish (es) Corea del Norte		14 418 332
5	German (de) Nordkorea		13 336 150
6	French (fr) Corée du Nord		10 008 760
7	Chinese (zh) 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国		7 475 576
8	Italian (it) Corea del Nord		6 460 452
9	Polish (pl) Korea Północna		6 427 071
10	Portuguese (pt) Coreia do Norte		5 726 312

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) North Korea		223 401
2	Japanese (ja) 朝鮮民主主義人民共和国		44 420
3	Spanish (es) Corea del Norte		43 243
4	French (fr) Corée du Nord		41 257
5	Russian (ru) Корейская Народно-Демократическая Республика		40 572
6	German (de) Nordkorea		33 203
7	Chinese (zh) 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国		30 161
8	Persian (fa) کره شمالی		18 883
9	Italian (it) Corea del Nord		17 144
10	Polish (pl) Korea Północna		14 126

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) North Korea		3 652
2	German (de) Nordkorea		1 081
3	Chinese (zh) 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国		1 022
4	Japanese (ja) 朝鮮民主主義人民共和国		929
5	French (fr) Corée du Nord		814
6	Korean (ko) 조선민주주의인민공화국		735
7	Spanish (es) Corea del Norte		714
8	Russian (ru) Корейская Народно-Демократическая Республика		673
9	Italian (it) Corea del Nord		573
10	Portuguese (pt) Coreia do Norte		405

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) North Korea		28
2	Japanese (ja) 朝鮮民主主義人民共和国		15
3	Chinese (zh) 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国		14
4	Spanish (es) Corea del Norte		10
5	Simple English (simple) North Korea		5
6	Italian (it) Corea del Nord		4
7	Arabic (ar) كوريا الشمالية		3
8	German (de) Nordkorea		3
9	Lithuanian (lt) Šiaurės Korėja		3
10	Portuguese (pt) Coreia do Norte		3

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information