Sub-Saharan Africa

Quality:

Sub-Saharan Africa - area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara Desert. Article “Sub-Saharan Africa” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9780^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Sub-Saharan Africa”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2595 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9780^th place).

The article is cited 166 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 24473 times in all languages (6904^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #369 in February 2014
• Global: #1235 in December 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2716 in August 2024
• Global: #7322 in June 2010

There are 51 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	French (fr) Afrique subsaharienne		100
2	Slovenian (sl) Podsaharska Afrika		91.3683
3	English (en) Sub-Saharan Africa		89.3621
4	Vietnamese (vi) Châu Phi Hạ Sahara		58.3649
5	Arabic (ar) إفريقيا جنوب الصحراء		58.0656
6	Chinese (zh) 撒哈拉以南非洲		41.7001
7	German (de) Subsahara-Afrika		36.4039
8	Basque (eu) Saharaz hegoaldeko Afrika		35.4766
9	Russian (ru) Чёрная Африка		34.6349
10	Tamil (ta) சகாரா கீழமை ஆபிரிக்கா		34.4629

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sub-Saharan Africa		12 365 273
2	Portuguese (pt) África subsariana		2 178 498
3	French (fr) Afrique subsaharienne		2 160 117
4	Spanish (es) África subsahariana		2 084 445
5	German (de) Subsahara-Afrika		974 263
6	Italian (it) Africa subsahariana		701 477
7	Russian (ru) Чёрная Африка		678 803
8	Polish (pl) Afryka Subsaharyjska		452 167
9	Japanese (ja) サブサハラアフリカ		378 228
10	Arabic (ar) إفريقيا جنوب الصحراء		333 781

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) Sub-Saharan Africa		31 523
2	French (fr) Afrique subsaharienne		5 133
3	Spanish (es) África subsahariana		3 971
4	Portuguese (pt) África subsariana		3 643
5	German (de) Subsahara-Afrika		3 377
6	Russian (ru) Чёрная Африка		2 624
7	Polish (pl) Afryka Subsaharyjska		1 853
8	Chinese (zh) 撒哈拉以南非洲		1 734
9	Italian (it) Africa subsahariana		1 640
10	Japanese (ja) サブサハラアフリカ		1 609

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sub-Saharan Africa		906
2	French (fr) Afrique subsaharienne		210
3	German (de) Subsahara-Afrika		200
4	Portuguese (pt) África subsariana		112
5	Italian (it) Africa subsahariana		111
6	Spanish (es) África subsahariana		100
7	Dutch (nl) Sub-Sahara		76
8	Russian (ru) Чёрная Африка		73
9	Polish (pl) Afryka Subsaharyjska		48
10	Vietnamese (vi) Châu Phi Hạ Sahara		48

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) Sub-Saharan Africa		4
2	French (fr) Afrique subsaharienne		2
3	Esperanto (eo) Afriko sude de Saharo		1
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Supsaharska Afrika		1
5	Slovenian (sl) Podsaharska Afrika		1
6	Arabic (ar) إفريقيا جنوب الصحراء		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Qara Afrika		0
8	Belarusian (be) Чорная Афрыка		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Субсахарска Африка		0
10	Catalan (ca) Àfrica subsahariana		0

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

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