South America

Quality:

South America - continent located mainly in the southwestern quadrant of the Earth. Article “South America” in Simple English Wikipedia has 54.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Dutch 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 1674^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1042^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 702^nd most popular in all topics.

The 501^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2528^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1833^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1269^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “South America”, its content was written by 82 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1042^nd place) and edited by 8165 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (501^st place).

The article is cited 1094 times in Simple English Wikipedia (476^th place) and cited 232086 times in all languages (484^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #41 in November 2016
• Global: #68 in August 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #750 in January 2017
• Global: #303 in June 2014

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	Dutch (nl) Zuid-Amerika		98.9245
2	Swedish (sv) Sydamerika		98.7957
3	Spanish (es) América del Sur		98.0167
4	Armenian (hy) Հարավային Ամերիկա		97.0707
5	Portuguese (pt) América do Sul		94.1646
6	Catalan (ca) Amèrica del Sud		88.0339
7	English (en) South America		87.4176
8	Galician (gl) América do Sur		86.5803
9	Esperanto (eo) Sudameriko		86.3199
10	Hindi (hi) दक्षिण अमेरिका		82.5432

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) South America		31 515 310
2	Spanish (es) América del Sur		20 313 889
3	German (de) Südamerika		6 823 359
4	Portuguese (pt) América do Sul		6 479 899
5	Russian (ru) Южная Америка		5 885 260
6	Polish (pl) Ameryka Południowa		5 214 036
7	French (fr) Amérique du Sud		4 492 619
8	Thai (th) ทวีปอเมริกาใต้		2 984 410
9	Italian (it) America meridionale		2 908 460
10	Japanese (ja) 南アメリカ		2 511 886

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 America		122 718
2	Spanish (es) América del Sur		29 240
3	German (de) Südamerika		23 635
4	Portuguese (pt) América do Sul		14 807
5	Russian (ru) Южная Америка		11 261
6	French (fr) Amérique du Sud		10 487
7	Polish (pl) Ameryka Południowa		8 944
8	Persian (fa) آمریکای جنوبی		8 473
9	Japanese (ja) 南アメリカ		8 279
10	Chinese (zh) 南美洲		5 864

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) South America		2 049
2	Spanish (es) América del Sur		939
3	German (de) Südamerika		529
4	Portuguese (pt) América do Sul		384
5	French (fr) Amérique du Sud		330
6	Italian (it) America meridionale		287
7	Dutch (nl) Zuid-Amerika		280
8	Russian (ru) Южная Америка		246
9	Polish (pl) Ameryka Południowa		239
10	Swedish (sv) Sydamerika		150

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 America		26
2	Dutch (nl) Zuid-Amerika		9
3	Spanish (es) América del Sur		4
4	Japanese (ja) 南アメリカ		3
5	Galician (gl) América do Sur		2
6	Polish (pl) Ameryka Południowa		2
7	Arabic (ar) أمريكا الجنوبية		1
8	Catalan (ca) Amèrica del Sud		1
9	German (de) Südamerika		1
10	Basque (eu) Hego Amerika		1

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

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