Number of Words In Each Countries Wiki

[Tenebris]

I would assume in ancient Greece as a different Wikipedia page modern Greece doesn’t have that large of Wikipedia page

[random_image]

I'm actually surprised that Slovakia has nearly 15, 000 words, meanwhile Czech Republic has only 7100 💀

[JJ-xewd]

holy roman empires bajillion states definitely influence Germany's wiki page

[МазуренкоВячеслав]

It also highly depends on whether you are readin english wiki, or the local one.

[konarefur]

Yes we germans have quite the history, but we lost the info about 1939-1945, noone remembers really i dunno

[gercobosch]

Germany though is also relatively new, Austria and Hungary also are quite new

[iDontReallyKnowTbh]

Im most surprised by Sweden since it’s got such a long and interesting history with the 30 year old war and the conqueror era but i guess Finland has more history lol

[joeym]

Is it in their native language or English?

[leoartyt]

Kosovo having 3 words more than serbia is pretty funny

[JacquelineKristol]

Ancient Greece has its own page. Ottomans are separate. Byzantines fall under both Greece and Turkey but have their own stuff. Seljuks got a page, The Caliphate, Mongols, Timurids, Karakhanlis, Seleucids, Macedons, and the Romans are also separate. So yeah

[kenbutsuri]

If its in their own languages, different labguages have different amount of information per word.

[terryf]

Germany IS a young country though. It has only existed for about 200 years. Sweden is way older but has fewer words which is weird as they have a rich history. It all seems arbitrary according to how much the Wikipedia contributors can be bothered to go into details I guess.

[Starving_indev]

+ as it seems this map shows the English Wikipedia pages "History of", not the ones in the native language, which might be bigger both due to language differences (some languages on average require more words to describe the same thing than others) and due to the fact that some local Wikipedia pages may contain more fact, because the local historians usually know their own history better, but might not know English well enough to write pages

[Bosnian-patriot]

I mean yea, Bosnia has very low words in history, but our History is way longer than 6448.

[sambryce]

I’m surprised the UK’s one is so short. Even if you just go from the act of Union, it’s still one of the oldest countries in Europe.

[affa_lol]

The problem with the Balkans is that nobody is willing to write full essays. And they focus more on Yugoslavia then the medieval times and stuff. They're much longer in the native languages, too! Would you say Turkey is new?

[AloysiusSandler]

Luxembourg with more words than Bosnia:

[Voiding]

How does NORTH MACEDONIA have almost 2000 more words than SAN MARINO, the oldest country

[MarcoPolo-YogurtSlinger]

Can you still change what's in Wikipedia?

[aidenzorn]

Man I wonder if any extensively documented historical event has happened in Germany