Most Read Wikipedia Articles From Around The World In 2012

There is a serious lack of cats and porn in this post.

1. English speakers looked up Facebook 32,647,942 times. Whyyyyyyyy?

Source: upload.wikimedia.org

2. Meanwhile, the Japanese understood what the Internet is for, looking up the full list of local adult film stars 18,569,543 times.

Source: ja.wikipedia.org

3. For some reason, the Dutch were super interested in Hua Shan, a mountain in Shaanxi, China. It had 12,719,284 views.

Source: upload.wikimedia.org

4. And in Russia, the top visited Wikipedia article was Russia with 3,682,191 visitors.

Source: ru.wikipedia.org

5. Like their English counterparts, the Spanish Wikipedia community couldn’t get enough of Facebook with 11,217,715 searches. Whyyyyyyyy?

Source: es.wikipedia.org

6. The article on Baidu, or China’s equivalent to Google, was read by 4,907,569 people.

Which, in a country of over 1 billion people, is not a lot for the top Wikipedia article.

Source: zh.wikipedia.org

7. Anyone care to explain why the Germans read about cul-de-sacs 10,206,548 times?

Source: upload.wikimedia.org

8. In Turkey the country’s first President, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, topped article searches at 2,185,387.

Source: tr.wikipedia.org

9. French speakers love (or hate) Embattled Holly so much they read about it 4,464,618 times.

Source: fr.wikipedia.org

10. At 1,385,687 visits, Indonesia is the third country to have Facebook as their top article. Whyyyyyyyy?

Source: id.wikipedia.org

11. Only 752 ,669 Danish speakers looked up tea, but it was enough to bump it to the top position.

Source: da.wikipedia.org

12. Vietnam also understands the Internet’s purpose, and was studying the list of every sex position ever. 2,018,973 times.

Source: vi.wikipedia.org

13. And over 2,592,423 Italians needed to catch up on their “Grey’s Anatomy”.

All numbers courtesy of Tool Server.

Source: it.wikipedia.org