Western Sahara

Quality:

Western Sahara - territory in North and West Africa. Article “Western Sahara” in Simple English Wikipedia has 31.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Ukrainian 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 8480^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4985^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5380^th most popular in all topics.

The 1603^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2248^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2106^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7492^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Western Sahara”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4985^th place) and edited by 5491 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1603^rd place).

The article is cited 95 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 21097 times in all languages (8163^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #278 in December 2007
• Global: #405 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1515 in July 2016
• Global: #813 in December 2022

There are 54 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	Ukrainian (uk) Західна Сахара		90.4866
2	Spanish (es) Sahara Occidental		88.4035
3	English (en) Western Sahara		82.8792
4	Finnish (fi) Länsi-Sahara		81.1257
5	French (fr) Sahara occidental		79.2051
6	Arabic (ar) الصحراء الغربية		73.6337
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Vest-Sahara		66.7691
8	Hebrew (he) סהרה המערבית		59.609
9	Swedish (sv) Västsahara		57.1205
10	Catalan (ca) Sàhara Occidental		54.7481

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Western Sahara		13 966 308
2	Spanish (es) Sahara Occidental		4 583 511
3	French (fr) Sahara occidental		4 005 187
4	Arabic (ar) الصحراء الغربية		3 009 920
5	German (de) Westsahara		2 554 791
6	Russian (ru) Западная Сахара		1 629 315
7	Polish (pl) Sahara Zachodnia		1 493 199
8	Japanese (ja) 西サハラ		1 216 343
9	Italian (it) Sahara Occidentale		1 182 011
10	Portuguese (pt) Saara Ocidental		1 181 153

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) Western Sahara		124 410
2	Spanish (es) Sahara Occidental		20 613
3	German (de) Westsahara		20 351
4	French (fr) Sahara occidental		13 546
5	Portuguese (pt) Saara Ocidental		11 459
6	Japanese (ja) 西サハラ		9 838
7	Polish (pl) Sahara Zachodnia		9 720
8	Russian (ru) Западная Сахара		8 268
9	Italian (it) Sahara Occidentale		7 046
10	Chinese (zh) 西撒哈拉		5 096

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Western Sahara		976
2	French (fr) Sahara occidental		640
3	Arabic (ar) الصحراء الغربية		413
4	Spanish (es) Sahara Occidental		379
5	German (de) Westsahara		324
6	Italian (it) Sahara Occidentale		274
7	Dutch (nl) Westelijke Sahara		226
8	Polish (pl) Sahara Zachodnia		145
9	Hebrew (he) סהרה המערבית		136
10	Russian (ru) Западная Сахара		135

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) Western Sahara		5
2	Spanish (es) Sahara Occidental		3
3	Dutch (nl) Westelijke Sahara		3
4	German (de) Westsahara		2
5	Basque (eu) Mendebaldeko Sahara		2
6	Hindi (hi) पश्चिमी सहारा		2
7	Catalan (ca) Sàhara Occidental		1
8	Czech (cs) Západní Sahara		1
9	French (fr) Sahara occidental		1
10	Hebrew (he) סהרה המערבית		1

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