Provinces of Japan

Quality:

Province of Japan - former administrative units of Japan. Article “Provinces of Japan” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Provinces of Japan”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 590 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 189 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6010 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4282 in August 2015
• Global: #9582 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8852 in August 2013
• Global: #64003 in December 2018

There are 29 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	Korean (ko) 율령국		52.3217
2	English (en) Provinces of Japan		49.2471
3	Chinese (zh) 令制國		40.6805
4	German (de) Provinzen Japans		38.2311
5	Japanese (ja) 令制国		29.5754
6	Hebrew (he) פרובינציות יפן		25.5542
7	Simple English (simple) Provinces of Japan		23.0623
8	Catalan (ca) Províncies del Japó		21.3836
9	Finnish (fi) Japanin provinssit		19.8835
10	Vietnamese (vi) Ryōseikoku		17.2506

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 令制国		2 530 326
2	English (en) Provinces of Japan		941 273
3	Chinese (zh) 令制國		465 370
4	Russian (ru) Провинции Японии		86 581
5	German (de) Provinzen Japans		81 610
6	French (fr) Provinces du Japon		50 554
7	Spanish (es) Provincias de Japón		47 778
8	Korean (ko) 율령국		44 650
9	Polish (pl) Prowincje Japonii		35 746
10	Portuguese (pt) Antigas províncias do Japão		35 445

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 令制国		13 134
2	English (en) Provinces of Japan		5 541
3	Chinese (zh) 令制國		3 905
4	Simple English (simple) Provinces of Japan		351
5	Russian (ru) Провинции Японии		319
6	Korean (ko) 율령국		273
7	German (de) Provinzen Japans		233
8	French (fr) Provinces du Japon		195
9	Spanish (es) Provincias de Japón		176
10	Indonesian (id) Provinsi (Jepang)		94

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Provinces of Japan		125
2	Japanese (ja) 令制国		116
3	Italian (it) Province dell'antico Giappone		49
4	German (de) Provinzen Japans		37
5	French (fr) Provinces du Japon		34
6	Chinese (zh) 令制國		33
7	Russian (ru) Провинции Японии		32
8	Korean (ko) 율령국		28
9	Dutch (nl) Provincies van Japan		24
10	Portuguese (pt) Antigas províncias do Japão		10

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	Esperanto (eo) Historiaj provincoj de Japanio		1
2	Finnish (fi) Japanin provinssit		1
3	Japanese (ja) 令制国		1
4	Catalan (ca) Províncies del Japó		0
5	Czech (cs) Provincie v Japonsku		0
6	German (de) Provinzen Japans		0
7	English (en) Provinces of Japan		0
8	Spanish (es) Provincias de Japón		0
9	Persian (fa) ولایت‌های ژاپن		0
10	French (fr) Provinces du Japon		0

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

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