Most popular edition of Wikipedia by country in <b>December 2022</b>, based on pageviews data from the Wikimedia API. Code used to generate the data: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://github.com/a455bcd9/wikilangtrends">https://github.com/a455bcd9/wikilangtrends</a> 
<p>See also <a class="external text" href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Most_popular_edition_of_Wikipedia_by_country_May_2015.svg">May 2015</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Most_popular_edition_of_Wikipedia_by_country_%E2%80%93_Wikimedia_Traffic_Analysis_Report_%E2%80%93_1_Jul_2016-31_Jul_2016.svg" title="File:Most popular edition of Wikipedia by country – Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report – 1 Jul 2016-31 Jul 2016.svg">July 2016</a> versions, and previous versions below.
</p><p>Only languages most used in at least four territories are shown:
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Greyed-out countries usually have their "national" language as the most popular Wikipedia, although there are exceptions. For instance, Afghanistan where the Farsi Wikipedia is the most popular (there is no Dari Wikipedia).
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