Protected area

Quality:

Protected area - areas protected for having ecological or cultural importance. Article “Protected area” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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 “Protected area”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1198 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 47 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 27700 times in all languages (6109^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #617 in September 2017
• Global: #6988 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8297 in November 2022
• Global: #23096 in May 2014

There are 43 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) Protected area		85.7717
2	German (de) Schutzgebiete im Natur- und Landschaftsschutz		80.5714
3	Slovenian (sl) Zavarovano območje		70.1273
4	Portuguese (pt) Área protegida		69.3997
5	French (fr) Aire protégée		66.4932
6	Hebrew (he) אזור מוגן		35.9102
7	Galician (gl) Espazo natural protexido		32.8287
8	Malay (ms) Kawasan perlindungan		31.433
9	Greek (el) Προστατευόμενη περιοχή		30.4223
10	Hindi (hi) संरक्षित क्षेत्र		30.0916

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Área protegida		2 815 750
2	English (en) Protected area		2 056 894
3	Portuguese (pt) Área protegida		479 725
4	Russian (ru) Охраняемая природная территория		364 241
5	German (de) Schutzgebiete im Natur- und Landschaftsschutz		321 546
6	French (fr) Aire protégée		181 473
7	Indonesian (id) Kawasan lindung		161 907
8	Polish (pl) Obszar chroniony		161 183
9	Hungarian (hu) Természetvédelmi terület		126 037
10	Romanian (ro) Arie protejată		124 342

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) Protected area		3 081
2	German (de) Schutzgebiete im Natur- und Landschaftsschutz		594
3	Russian (ru) Охраняемая природная территория		547
4	Spanish (es) Área protegida		543
5	Persian (fa) منطقه حفاظت‌شده		473
6	French (fr) Aire protégée		363
7	Portuguese (pt) Área protegida		273
8	Chinese (zh) 保护区		210
9	Romanian (ro) Arie protejată		139
10	Hungarian (hu) Természetvédelmi terület		128

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Protected area		351
2	German (de) Schutzgebiete im Natur- und Landschaftsschutz		145
3	Spanish (es) Área protegida		136
4	French (fr) Aire protégée		93
5	Portuguese (pt) Área protegida		59
6	Hungarian (hu) Természetvédelmi terület		38
7	Dutch (nl) Beschermd natuurgebied		34
8	Russian (ru) Охраняемая природная территория		32
9	Czech (cs) Chráněné území		30
10	Ukrainian (uk) Природоохоронна територія		28

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	German (de) Schutzgebiete im Natur- und Landschaftsschutz		3
2	English (en) Protected area		2
3	Ukrainian (uk) Природоохоронна територія		2
4	Arabic (ar) منطقة محمية		1
5	Galician (gl) Espazo natural protexido		1
6	Italian (it) Area protetta		1
7	Slovenian (sl) Zavarovano območje		1
8	Chinese (zh) 保护区		1
9	Belarusian (be) Асабліва ахоўныя прыродныя тэрыторыі і аб’екты		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Защитена територия		0

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

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