Battle of Dunkirk

Quality:

Battle of Dunkirk - 1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany. This event is the 170^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 150^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Dunkirk” in English Wikipedia has 82.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 70 references and 20 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7041^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

The 150^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7488^th most popular in all topics.

The 170^th most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “Battle of Dunkirk”, its content was written by 769 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2259 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle of Dunkirk is on the 150^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 170^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 650 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3845 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #361 in July 2017
• Global: #194 in July 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9 in July 2017
• Global: #9 in July 2017

There are 40 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, 2026 (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	Malay (ms) Pertempuran Dunkirk		100
2	English (en) Battle of Dunkirk		82.2816
3	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Dunkerque		78.384
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Dunkerque		75.7711
5	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Dunquerque		68.4768
6	Polish (pl) Obrona Dunkierki		61.8487
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Dunkerque (1940)		59.1939
8	Vietnamese (vi) Trận Dunkerque		55.1701
9	Slovenian (sl) Bitka pri Dunkirku		52.238
10	Azerbaijani (az) Dünkerk uğrunda döyüş		46.9752

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Dunkirk		17 854 972
2	German (de) Schlacht von Dünkirchen		2 889 229
3	Spanish (es) Batalla de Dunkerque (1940)		2 247 408
4	Japanese (ja) ダンケルクの戦い		1 883 322
5	French (fr) Bataille de Dunkerque		1 777 491
6	Chinese (zh) 敦刻尔克战役		1 503 374
7	Italian (it) Battaglia di Dunkerque		1 410 977
8	Russian (ru) Битва за Дюнкерк		611 752
9	Dutch (nl) Slag om Duinkerke (1940)		564 259
10	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Dunquerque		518 703

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) Battle of Dunkirk		20 159
2	German (de) Schlacht von Dünkirchen		6 936
3	French (fr) Bataille de Dunkerque		5 014
4	Chinese (zh) 敦刻尔克战役		3 704
5	Japanese (ja) ダンケルクの戦い		3 495
6	Russian (ru) Битва за Дюнкерк		3 026
7	Italian (it) Battaglia di Dunkerque		2 283
8	Spanish (es) Batalla de Dunkerque (1940)		2 123
9	Dutch (nl) Slag om Duinkerke (1940)		1 290
10	Czech (cs) Bitva u Dunkerque		1 264

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Dunkirk		769
2	French (fr) Bataille de Dunkerque		261
3	German (de) Schlacht von Dünkirchen		197
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Dunkerque		131
5	Chinese (zh) 敦刻尔克战役		102
6	Dutch (nl) Slag om Duinkerke (1940)		91
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Dunkerque (1940)		63
8	Hungarian (hu) Dunkerque-i csata		61
9	Japanese (ja) ダンケルクの戦い		57
10	Simple English (simple) Battle of Dunkirk		54

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	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Dunkerque		3
2	Basque (eu) Dunkerqueko gudua		1
3	Chinese (zh) 敦刻尔克战役		1
4	Arabic (ar) معركة دنكيرك		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Dünkerk uğrunda döyüş		0
6	Czech (cs) Bitva u Dunkerque		0
7	Danish (da) Slaget ved Dunkerque		0
8	German (de) Schlacht von Dünkirchen		0
9	Greek (el) Μάχη της Δουνκέρκης		0
10	English (en) Battle of Dunkirk		0

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

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