South Korea

Quality:

South Korea - country in East Asia. Article “South Korea” in Simple English Wikipedia has 79.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 48 references and 23 sections.

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 1048^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 308^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 141^st most popular in all topics.

The 47^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1628^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 419^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 549^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “South Korea”, its content was written by 143 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (308^th place) and edited by 14765 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (47^th place).

The article is cited 2306 times in Simple English Wikipedia (176^th place) and cited 669217 times in all languages (140^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #20 in February 2018
• Global: #21 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #494 in October 2010
• Global: #54 in February 2018

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) 大韩民国		100
2	Malay (ms) Korea Selatan		100
3	Esperanto (eo) Sud-Koreio		100
4	Spanish (es) Corea del Sur		98.62
5	Portuguese (pt) Coreia do Sul		97.5009
6	Finnish (fi) Korean tasavalta		97.1211
7	Arabic (ar) كوريا الجنوبية		97.1138
8	Vietnamese (vi) Hàn Quốc		96.9198
9	Kazakh (kk) Корея Республикасы		96.7798
10	Thai (th) ประเทศเกาหลีใต้		96.5815

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) South Korea		66 486 891
2	Japanese (ja) 大韓民国		21 109 873
3	Spanish (es) Corea del Sur		14 681 665
4	Russian (ru) Республика Корея		12 977 963
5	Chinese (zh) 大韩民国		11 934 154
6	Korean (ko) 대한민국		10 493 917
7	German (de) Südkorea		8 821 242
8	French (fr) Corée du Sud		6 638 688
9	Portuguese (pt) Coreia do Sul		5 457 447
10	Vietnamese (vi) Hàn Quốc		4 720 415

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 Korea		227 632
2	Spanish (es) Corea del Sur		72 775
3	Korean (ko) 대한민국		45 351
4	Chinese (zh) 大韩民国		44 967
5	Japanese (ja) 大韓民国		42 443
6	Russian (ru) Республика Корея		35 088
7	German (de) Südkorea		29 757
8	French (fr) Corée du Sud		24 220
9	Portuguese (pt) Coreia do Sul		19 043
10	Persian (fa) کره جنوبی		18 872

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) South Korea		3 520
2	Japanese (ja) 大韓民国		1 122
3	Korean (ko) 대한민국		1 010
4	Chinese (zh) 大韩民国		944
5	German (de) Südkorea		879
6	French (fr) Corée du Sud		661
7	Spanish (es) Corea del Sur		559
8	Russian (ru) Республика Корея		452
9	Italian (it) Corea del Sud		411
10	Vietnamese (vi) Hàn Quốc		374

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 Korea		16
2	Japanese (ja) 大韓民国		11
3	French (fr) Corée du Sud		5
4	Dutch (nl) Zuid-Korea		5
5	Chinese (zh) 大韩民国		5
6	Spanish (es) Corea del Sur		4
7	Russian (ru) Республика Корея		4
8	Hebrew (he) קוריאה הדרומית		3
9	Italian (it) Corea del Sud		3
10	Vietnamese (vi) Hàn Quốc		3

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information