Rural area

Quality:

Rural area - geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Article “Rural area” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

In June 2025 the article “Rural area” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4562^nd place) and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Rural area”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1701 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 372 times in Simple English Wikipedia (7529^th place) and cited 22274 times in all languages (7460^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #596 in February 2019
• Global: #2222 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #859 in February 2020
• Global: #5430 in January 2016

There are 46 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	English (en) Rural area		78.3083
2	French (fr) Campagne		51.2095
3	German (de) Ländlicher Raum		42.1319
4	Catalan (ca) Medi rural		38.7254
5	Spanish (es) Medio rural		36.6123
6	Italian (it) Campagna		34.4914
7	Russian (ru) Сельская местность		33.9332
8	Chinese (zh) 农村		32.9435
9	Japanese (ja) 田舎		31.892
10	Ukrainian (uk) Сільська місцевість		31.3609

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rural area		6 547 088
2	Spanish (es) Medio rural		5 351 017
3	French (fr) Campagne		1 054 466
4	Portuguese (pt) Zona rural		832 874
5	Arabic (ar) ريف		557 333
6	Japanese (ja) 田舎		451 712
7	Italian (it) Campagna		292 007
8	German (de) Ländlicher Raum		264 416
9	Romanian (ro) Zonă rurală		253 136
10	Chinese (zh) 农村		211 734

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) Rural area		12 709
2	Spanish (es) Medio rural		1 875
3	French (fr) Campagne		1 220
4	Simple English (simple) Rural area		1 060
5	Japanese (ja) 田舎		972
6	Chinese (zh) 农村		895
7	Portuguese (pt) Zona rural		767
8	German (de) Ländlicher Raum		472
9	Arabic (ar) ريف		443
10	Italian (it) Campagna		404

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rural area		448
2	French (fr) Campagne		200
3	Spanish (es) Medio rural		141
4	German (de) Ländlicher Raum		90
5	Japanese (ja) 田舎		77
6	Dutch (nl) Platteland		67
7	Italian (it) Campagna		66
8	Norwegian (no) Bygd		56
9	Portuguese (pt) Zona rural		56
10	Arabic (ar) ريف		49

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	Spanish (es) Medio rural		2
2	Polish (pl) Obszar wiejski		2
3	English (en) Rural area		1
4	Japanese (ja) 田舎		1
5	Dutch (nl) Platteland		1
6	Simple English (simple) Rural area		1
7	Arabic (ar) ريف		0
8	Belarusian (be) Сельская мясцовасць		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Селски район		0
10	Catalan (ca) Medi rural		0

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

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