Southern Rhodesia

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Southern Rhodesia - a landlocked self-governing colony of the British Empire in present-day Zimbabwe (1923–1980); initially administered by the British South Africa Company, with politics dominated by the white settler minority through racially discriminatory laws. Article “Southern Rhodesia” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Southern Rhodesia”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1018 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 43 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10140 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1281 in October 2018
• Global: #1896 in August 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #24086 in January 2008
• Global: #7670 in November 2017

There are 38 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	English (en) Southern Rhodesia		62.7709
2	Hebrew (he) רודזיה הדרומית		55.6695
3	Catalan (ca) Colònia de Rhodèsia del Sud		44.4339
4	Romanian (ro) Rhodesia de Sud		41.1681
5	German (de) Südrhodesien		37.6318
6	Turkish (tr) Güney Rodezya		33.3512
7	Chinese (zh) 南羅德西亞		27.7845
8	Portuguese (pt) Rodésia do Sul		26.4713
9	Polish (pl) Rodezja Południowa		22.0033
10	Urdu (ur) جنوبی رہوڈیسیا		21.9344

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Southern Rhodesia		4 466 726
2	French (fr) Rhodésie du Sud		558 558
3	Russian (ru) Южная Родезия		500 906
4	German (de) Südrhodesien		462 050
5	Spanish (es) Rodesia del Sur		329 112
6	Japanese (ja) 南ローデシア		253 185
7	Portuguese (pt) Rodésia do Sul		179 945
8	Polish (pl) Rodezja Południowa		164 230
9	Italian (it) Rhodesia Meridionale		157 210
10	Chinese (zh) 南羅德西亞		112 668

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) Southern Rhodesia		27 358
2	Russian (ru) Южная Родезия		2 383
3	Swedish (sv) Sydrhodesia		2 340
4	Spanish (es) Rodesia del Sur		2 070
5	French (fr) Rhodésie du Sud		1 907
6	German (de) Südrhodesien		1 894
7	Japanese (ja) 南ローデシア		1 295
8	Italian (it) Rhodesia Meridionale		1 094
9	Portuguese (pt) Rodésia do Sul		787
10	Chinese (zh) 南羅德西亞		612

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Southern Rhodesia		284
2	German (de) Südrhodesien		105
3	French (fr) Rhodésie du Sud		98
4	Italian (it) Rhodesia Meridionale		59
5	Japanese (ja) 南ローデシア		42
6	Russian (ru) Южная Родезия		38
7	Spanish (es) Rodesia del Sur		31
8	Polish (pl) Rodezja Południowa		26
9	Chinese (zh) 南羅德西亞		26
10	Ukrainian (uk) Південна Родезія		25

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) Southern Rhodesia		6
2	German (de) Südrhodesien		2
3	Catalan (ca) Colònia de Rhodèsia del Sud		1
4	Basque (eu) Hego Rhodesia		1
5	Finnish (fi) Etelä-Rhodesia		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Південна Родезія		1
7	Chinese (zh) 南羅德西亞		1
8	Arabic (ar) رودسيا الجنوبية		0
9	Belarusian (be) Паўднёвая Радэзія		0
10	Czech (cs) Jižní Rhodesie		0

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

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