Shiga Prefecture

Quality:

Shiga Prefecture - prefecture of Japan. Article “Shiga Prefecture” in Simple English Wikipedia has 45.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Shiga Prefecture”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1383 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 117 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 28698 times in all languages (5885^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3103 in September 2016
• Global: #3087 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5602 in May 2018
• Global: #5226 in February 2017

There are 47 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	Japanese (ja) 滋賀県		69.9592
2	Chinese (zh) 滋贺县		63.6919
3	English (en) Shiga Prefecture		61.5138
4	Thai (th) จังหวัดชิงะ		53.6663
5	Portuguese (pt) Shiga		50.0087
6	Korean (ko) 시가현		45.2525
7	Simple English (simple) Shiga Prefecture		45.2277
8	German (de) Präfektur Shiga		44.9336
9	Georgian (ka) სიგის პრეფექტურა		44.8048
10	Indonesian (id) Prefektur Shiga		44.7536

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 滋賀県		5 545 094
2	English (en) Shiga Prefecture		1 131 393
3	Chinese (zh) 滋贺县		453 161
4	Korean (ko) 시가현		93 626
5	Russian (ru) Сига		91 822
6	German (de) Präfektur Shiga		69 876
7	Spanish (es) Prefectura de Shiga		68 800
8	Portuguese (pt) Shiga		62 302
9	French (fr) Préfecture de Shiga		58 695
10	Vietnamese (vi) Shiga		56 033

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) 滋賀県		15 777
2	English (en) Shiga Prefecture		4 943
3	Chinese (zh) 滋贺县		2 131
4	Russian (ru) Сига		343
5	Korean (ko) 시가현		298
6	German (de) Präfektur Shiga		224
7	Spanish (es) Prefectura de Shiga		202
8	Vietnamese (vi) Shiga		200
9	French (fr) Préfecture de Shiga		199
10	Indonesian (id) Prefektur Shiga		177

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 滋賀県		331
2	English (en) Shiga Prefecture		196
3	French (fr) Préfecture de Shiga		81
4	German (de) Präfektur Shiga		78
5	Italian (it) Prefettura di Shiga		65
6	Russian (ru) Сига		49
7	Vietnamese (vi) Shiga		45
8	Chinese (zh) 滋贺县		45
9	Dutch (nl) Shiga (prefectuur)		42
10	Spanish (es) Prefectura de Shiga		37

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	Arabic (ar) شيغا (محافظة)		1
2	Japanese (ja) 滋賀県		1
3	Azerbaijani (az) Şiqa prefekturası		0
4	Belarusian (be) Сіга (прэфектура)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Шига		0
6	Catalan (ca) Prefectura de Shiga		0
7	Czech (cs) Prefektura Šiga		0
8	Danish (da) Shiga-præfekturet		0
9	German (de) Präfektur Shiga		0
10	English (en) Shiga Prefecture		0

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

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