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South

Quality:

South - one of the four cardinal directions. Article “South” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 8940th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Since the creation of article “South”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8940th place) and edited by 1591 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 224 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 33844 times in all languages (4833rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #129 in December 2004
  • Global: #1067 in July 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #4033 in May 2022
  • Global: #24153 in February 2015

There are 53 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Spanish (es)
Sur
46.6352
2Catalan (ca)
Sud
38.7089
3German (de)
Süden
32.1882
4Thai (th)
ทิศใต้
31.9086
5English (en)
South
31.6559
6Malay (ms)
Selatan
31.5732
7Ukrainian (uk)
Південь
30.0451
8Azerbaijani (az)
Cənub
28.7417
9Persian (fa)
جنوب
27.5959
10Serbian (sr)
Југ
26.7814
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "South" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
South
1 513 142
2Spanish (es)
Sur
1 488 105
3French (fr)
Sud
795 049
4Japanese (ja)
509 578
5Hindi (hi)
दक्षिण
488 392
6Russian (ru)
Юг
420 069
7Portuguese (pt)
Sul
385 969
8Italian (it)
Sud
271 490
9Indonesian (id)
Selatan
181 752
10Vietnamese (vi)
Hướng nam
180 437
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "South" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
South
6 705
2Spanish (es)
Sur
2 422
3Russian (ru)
Юг
1 706
4Hindi (hi)
दक्षिण
1 075
5French (fr)
Sud
867
6Portuguese (pt)
Sul
721
7Japanese (ja)
626
8Ukrainian (uk)
Південь
578
9Chinese (zh)
571
10Indonesian (id)
Selatan
514
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "South" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
South
213
2French (fr)
Sud
111
3German (de)
Süden
94
4Spanish (es)
Sur
78
5Italian (it)
Sud
70
6Norwegian (no)
Sør
62
7Russian (ru)
Юг
59
8Dutch (nl)
Zuid
55
9Japanese (ja)
54
10Vietnamese (vi)
Hướng nam
49
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "South" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
South
2
2Arabic (ar)
جنوب
0
3Azerbaijani (az)
Cənub
0
4Belarusian (be)
Поўдзень
0
5Bulgarian (bg)
Юг
0
6Catalan (ca)
Sud
0
7Czech (cs)
Jih
0
8Danish (da)
Syd
0
9German (de)
Süden
0
10Greek (el)
Νότος
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "South" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Jug
3 343
2Portuguese (pt)
Sul
3 124
3Italian (it)
Sud
2 974
4Catalan (ca)
Sud
2 388
5Spanish (es)
Sur
2 339
6French (fr)
Sud
1 666
7Georgian (ka)
სამხრეთი
1 365
8Galician (gl)
Sur
1 270
9Ukrainian (uk)
Південь
1 118
10Hebrew (he)
דרום
864
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Global:
Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
جنوب
azAzerbaijani
Cənub
beBelarusian
Поўдзень
bgBulgarian
Юг
caCatalan
Sud
csCzech
Jih
daDanish
Syd
deGerman
Süden
elGreek
Νότος
enEnglish
South
eoEsperanto
Sudo
esSpanish
Sur
etEstonian
Lõuna
euBasque
Hego
faPersian
جنوب
fiFinnish
Etelä
frFrench
Sud
glGalician
Sur
heHebrew
דרום
hiHindi
दक्षिण
hrCroatian
Jug
huHungarian
Dél
hyArmenian
Հարավ
idIndonesian
Selatan
itItalian
Sud
jaJapanese
kaGeorgian
სამხრეთი
kkKazakh
Оңтүстік
koKorean
남쪽
laLatin
Meridies (pars caeli)
ltLithuanian
Pietūs
msMalay
Selatan
nlDutch
Zuid
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Sør
noNorwegian
Sør
ptPortuguese
Sul
roRomanian
Sud
ruRussian
Юг
shSerbo-Croatian
Jug
simpleSimple English
South
skSlovak
Juh (svetová strana)
slSlovenian
Jug
srSerbian
Југ
svSwedish
Söder
taTamil
தெற்கு
thThai
ทิศใต้
trTurkish
Güney
ukUkrainian
Південь
urUrdu
جنوب
uzUzbek
Janub
viVietnamese
Hướng nam
zhChinese
zhminnanMin Nan
Lâm-pêng (hong-ūi)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#4033
05.2022
Global:
#24153
02.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#129
12.2004
Global:
#1067
07.2010

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on South from Wikipedia articles about Antarctica, North, Cardinal direction, Mexico and Geographic direction. Whereas reading the article about South people most often go to Wikipedia articles on North, Cardinal direction, East, West and South.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: South
es: Sur
fr: Sud
ja:
ru: Юг
pt: Sul
it: Sud
zh:
de: Süden
tr: Güney
ko: 남쪽
cs: Jih
ro: Sud
nl: Zuid
sv: Söder
no: Sør
ca: Sud
hr: Jug
fi: Etelä
da: Syd
simple: South
bg: Юг
sr: Југ
az: Cənub
hu: Dél
sh: Jug
sl: Jug
uz: Janub
et: Lõuna
eo: Sudo
gl: Sur
eu: Hego
nn: Sør

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