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What the world reads on Wikipedia

The most-read Wikipedia articles in each country, from Wikimedia's per-country pageview data (CC0). This measures where readers were — a different axis from our trending pages, which slice by Wikipedia language edition.

Source
Wikimedia pageviews — most-read articles per country (CC0)
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the most recent day Wikimedia published for each country
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29 countries you can open — drawn from 194 countries probed

Wikimedia privacy-caps this feed: it publishes only articles above a view threshold in a given country, and for some countries nothing at all. 9 countries come back full, 28 partial, 69 with too few articles to rank honestly, and 88 with nothing. We would rather show the gaps than pad them.

Where this data comes from ›

Full rankings — 9 countries

Partial rankings — 28 countries

Wikimedia published a capped subset for these. Treat them as a sample of the most-read, not a complete list.

Not published by Wikimedia — 88 countries

No per-country reading data is published for these, including Andorra, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Burundi, Benin, Brunei, Bahamas, Bhutan, Botswana, Belarus, Belize, Central African Republic, Congo, China, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominica, Egypt and others. Wikimedia withholds this feed where publishing it could expose readers, which is a deliberate protection rather than a gap in our ingest.