Penal colony

Quality:

Penal colony - remote settlement used to house convicts from the general population. Article “Penal colony” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 4 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 “Penal colony”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 831 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 49 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2108 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #906 in May 2024
• Global: #2817 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1464 in June 2013
• Global: #29958 in November 2022

There are 25 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	English (en) Penal colony		41.56
2	Norwegian (no) Straffekoloni		29.8539
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kažnjenička kolonija		28.4937
4	French (fr) Colonie pénale		25.8278
5	Portuguese (pt) Colônia penal		25.765
6	Chinese (zh) 流放地		23.6691
7	Hebrew (he) מושבת עונשין		23.0372
8	German (de) Strafkolonie		20.69
9	Italian (it) Colonia penale		17.2944
10	Russian (ru) Ссылка в колонии		15.8873

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Penal colony		2 780 725
2	German (de) Strafkolonie		306 423
3	Italian (it) Colonia penale		236 939
4	Polish (pl) Kolonia karna		224 612
5	Spanish (es) Colonia penal		104 665
6	Dutch (nl) Strafkolonie		92 415
7	French (fr) Colonie pénale		51 260
8	Portuguese (pt) Colônia penal		48 054
9	Hebrew (he) מושבת עונשין		47 933
10	Simple English (simple) Penal colony		36 423

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) Penal colony		7 670
2	Polish (pl) Kolonia karna		659
3	Italian (it) Colonia penale		654
4	German (de) Strafkolonie		594
5	French (fr) Colonie pénale		400
6	Dutch (nl) Strafkolonie		183
7	Chinese (zh) 流放地		181
8	Spanish (es) Colonia penal		180
9	Portuguese (pt) Colônia penal		132
10	Hebrew (he) מושבת עונשין		123

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Penal colony		344
2	German (de) Strafkolonie		94
3	French (fr) Colonie pénale		86
4	Italian (it) Colonia penale		67
5	Dutch (nl) Strafkolonie		43
6	Hebrew (he) מושבת עונשין		36
7	Polish (pl) Kolonia karna		24
8	Danish (da) Straffekoloni		22
9	Simple English (simple) Penal colony		14
10	Portuguese (pt) Colônia penal		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	French (fr) Colonie pénale		2
2	Catalan (ca) Colònia penal		1
3	English (en) Penal colony		1
4	Esperanto (eo) Prizonkolonio		1
5	Chinese (zh) 流放地		1
6	Arabic (ar) مستعمرة عقابية		0
7	Danish (da) Straffekoloni		0
8	German (de) Strafkolonie		0
9	Spanish (es) Colonia penal		0
10	Persian (fa) مستعمره کیفری		0

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

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