South Africa

Quality:

South Africa - country in southern Africa. Article “South Africa” in Simple English Wikipedia has 80.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 43 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.22 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 598^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 345^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 154^th most popular in all topics.

The 126^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 651^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2096^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 288^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1513^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “South Africa” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2096^th place) and written by 52 authors in all languages (1513^th place).

Since the creation of article “South Africa”, its content was written by 136 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (345^th place) and edited by 11635 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (126^th place).

The article is cited 2204 times in Simple English Wikipedia (185^th place) and cited 446942 times in all languages (209^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #14 in January 2011
• Global: #23 in June 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #56 in June 2010
• Global: #6 in June 2010

There are 55 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	Chinese (zh) 南非		100
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Južnoafrička Republika		100
3	German (de) Südafrika		97.1437
4	Czech (cs) Jihoafrická republika		96.2256
5	English (en) South Africa		95.043
6	Portuguese (pt) África do Sul		94.6793
7	Swedish (sv) Sydafrika		93.528
8	Finnish (fi) Etelä-Afrikka		93.1976
9	Vietnamese (vi) Cộng hòa Nam Phi		93.0331
10	Romanian (ro) Africa de Sud		89.1284

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) South Africa		82 857 865
2	German (de) Südafrika		14 994 609
3	Spanish (es) Sudáfrica		13 347 859
4	French (fr) Afrique du Sud		12 102 205
5	Russian (ru) Южно-Африканская Республика		11 803 932
6	Portuguese (pt) África do Sul		8 842 772
7	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ共和国		7 024 439
8	Italian (it) Sudafrica		6 414 160
9	Polish (pl) Południowa Afryka		5 801 634
10	Arabic (ar) جنوب إفريقيا		3 908 200

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) South Africa		334 384
2	Spanish (es) Sudáfrica		81 941
3	German (de) Südafrika		66 452
4	Russian (ru) Южно-Африканская Республика		48 177
5	French (fr) Afrique du Sud		39 764
6	Polish (pl) Południowa Afryka		35 062
7	Portuguese (pt) África do Sul		30 190
8	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ共和国		27 684
9	Italian (it) Sudafrica		23 544
10	Chinese (zh) 南非		20 281

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) South Africa		2 828
2	German (de) Südafrika		953
3	French (fr) Afrique du Sud		766
4	Spanish (es) Sudáfrica		542
5	Dutch (nl) Zuid-Afrika		529
6	Russian (ru) Южно-Африканская Республика		493
7	Italian (it) Sudafrica		423
8	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ共和国		331
9	Portuguese (pt) África do Sul		306
10	Polish (pl) Południowa Afryka		273

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	English (en) South Africa		13
2	French (fr) Afrique du Sud		5
3	Dutch (nl) Zuid-Afrika		4
4	German (de) Südafrika		2
5	Spanish (es) Sudáfrica		2
6	Hebrew (he) דרום אפריקה		2
7	Croatian (hr) Južna Afrika		2
8	Hungarian (hu) Dél-afrikai Köztársaság		2
9	Japanese (ja) 南アフリカ共和国		2
10	Russian (ru) Южно-Африканская Республика		2

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

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