Prefecture

Quality:

Prefecture - administrative jurisdiction or subdivision in any of various countries. Article “Prefecture” in English Wikipedia has 24.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.71 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Prefecture” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Prefecture”, its content was written by 175 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 747 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 644 times in English Wikipedia and cited 17253 times in all languages (9681^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #870 in March 2003
• Global: #2676 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2578 in February 2014
• Global: #7074 in March 2011

There are 31 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, 2025 (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	Latin (la) Praefectura		40.4431
2	Malay (ms) Prefektur		28.3119
3	English (en) Prefecture		24.3803
4	Slovenian (sl) Prefektura		23.5009
5	Kazakh (kk) Префектура		21.303
6	Basque (eu) Prefektura		20.4907
7	Galician (gl) Prefectura		18.767
8	Vietnamese (vi) Hạt (hành chính)		18.0427
9	Finnish (fi) Prefektuuri		17.1053
10	Arabic (ar) عمالة (تقسيم إداري)		16.281

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Prefecture		1 706 982
2	French (fr) Préfecture		1 169 760
3	Japanese (ja) 県		671 390
4	Spanish (es) Prefectura		432 486
5	Russian (ru) Префектура		418 069
6	German (de) Präfektur		294 858
7	Portuguese (pt) Prefeitura		177 113
8	Greek (el) Νομός		167 450
9	Indonesian (id) Prefektur		137 640
10	Polish (pl) Prefektura (administracja)		127 542

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) Prefecture		6 168
2	French (fr) Préfecture		2 437
3	Japanese (ja) 県		1 667
4	Russian (ru) Префектура		925
5	Spanish (es) Prefectura		801
6	German (de) Präfektur		480
7	Simple English (simple) Prefecture		407
8	Polish (pl) Prefektura (administracja)		320
9	Portuguese (pt) Prefeitura		299
10	Korean (ko) 현 (행정 구역)		247

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Prefecture		175
2	French (fr) Préfecture		106
3	Japanese (ja) 県		86
4	German (de) Präfektur		39
5	Portuguese (pt) Prefeitura		37
6	Spanish (es) Prefectura		36
7	Russian (ru) Префектура		25
8	Polish (pl) Prefektura (administracja)		23
9	Latin (la) Praefectura		19
10	Korean (ko) 현 (행정 구역)		17

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	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Prefektura		2
2	English (en) Prefecture		1
3	Japanese (ja) 県		1
4	Arabic (ar) عمالة (تقسيم إداري)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Префектура		0
6	Catalan (ca) Prefectura		0
7	Danish (da) Præfektur		0
8	German (de) Präfektur		0
9	Greek (el) Νομός		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Prefektlando		0

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

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