Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service - 1973 novel by Mario Vargas Llosa. This book is the 3994^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Captain Pantoja and the Special Service” in English Wikipedia has 17 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Spanish.

In June 2025 the article “Captain Pantoja and the Special Service” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Captain Pantoja and the Special Service”, its content was written by 25 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 135 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service is on the 3994^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 44 times in English Wikipedia and cited 158 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #158390 in March 2008
• Global: #53066 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #227327 in October 2010
• Global: #47844 in October 2010

There are 9 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, 2025 (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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Pantaleón og tjenerinnene		55.9708
2	German (de) Der Hauptmann und sein Frauenbataillon		44.5741
3	Spanish (es) Pantaleón y las visitadoras		22.7039
4	Swedish (sv) Pantaleón och soldatbordellen		19.8763
5	English (en) Captain Pantoja and the Special Service		16.9732
6	Hungarian (hu) Pantaleón és a hölgyvendégek (regény)		6.6691
7	Esperanto (eo) Pantaleón y las visitadoras		4.888
8	Polish (pl) Pantaleon i wizytantki		3.0339
9	French (fr) Pantaleón et les visiteuses		0.888

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Captain Pantoja and the Special Service" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Pantaleón y las visitadoras		1 153 565
2	English (en) Captain Pantoja and the Special Service		124 766
3	Polish (pl) Pantaleon i wizytantki		50 252
4	German (de) Der Hauptmann und sein Frauenbataillon		16 167
5	French (fr) Pantaleón et les visiteuses		7 921
6	Swedish (sv) Pantaleón och soldatbordellen		4 004
7	Hungarian (hu) Pantaleón és a hölgyvendégek (regény)		3 316
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Pantaleón og tjenerinnene		2 079
9	Esperanto (eo) Pantaleón y las visitadoras		2 070

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Captain Pantoja and the Special Service" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Pantaleón y las visitadoras		2 502
2	English (en) Captain Pantoja and the Special Service		605
3	Polish (pl) Pantaleon i wizytantki		178
4	German (de) Der Hauptmann und sein Frauenbataillon		143
5	French (fr) Pantaleón et les visiteuses		80
6	Hungarian (hu) Pantaleón és a hölgyvendégek (regény)		80
7	Esperanto (eo) Pantaleón y las visitadoras		41
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Pantaleón og tjenerinnene		41
9	Swedish (sv) Pantaleón och soldatbordellen		6

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

Language versions of the article "Captain Pantoja and the Special Service" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Pantaleón y las visitadoras		45
2	English (en) Captain Pantoja and the Special Service		25
3	German (de) Der Hauptmann und sein Frauenbataillon		18
4	Hungarian (hu) Pantaleón és a hölgyvendégek (regény)		14
5	Polish (pl) Pantaleon i wizytantki		11
6	Esperanto (eo) Pantaleón y las visitadoras		8
7	French (fr) Pantaleón et les visiteuses		6
8	Swedish (sv) Pantaleón och soldatbordellen		5
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Pantaleón og tjenerinnene		3

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

Language versions of the article "Captain Pantoja and the Special Service" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Captain Pantoja and the Special Service		1
2	German (de) Der Hauptmann und sein Frauenbataillon		0
3	Esperanto (eo) Pantaleón y las visitadoras		0
4	Spanish (es) Pantaleón y las visitadoras		0
5	French (fr) Pantaleón et les visiteuses		0
6	Hungarian (hu) Pantaleón és a hölgyvendégek (regény)		0
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Pantaleón og tjenerinnene		0
8	Polish (pl) Pantaleon i wizytantki		0
9	Swedish (sv) Pantaleón och soldatbordellen		0

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

Language versions of the article "Captain Pantoja and the Special Service" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Captain Pantoja and the Special Service		44
2	Spanish (es) Pantaleón y las visitadoras		44
3	Polish (pl) Pantaleon i wizytantki		26
4	German (de) Der Hauptmann und sein Frauenbataillon		24
5	Esperanto (eo) Pantaleón y las visitadoras		5
6	French (fr) Pantaleón et les visiteuses		5
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Pantaleón og tjenerinnene		5
8	Hungarian (hu) Pantaleón és a hölgyvendégek (regény)		3
9	Swedish (sv) Pantaleón och soldatbordellen		2

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#	Language	Value
de	German Der Hauptmann und sein Frauenbataillon
en	English Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
eo	Esperanto Pantaleón y las visitadoras
es	Spanish Pantaleón y las visitadoras
fr	French Pantaleón et les visiteuses
hu	Hungarian Pantaleón és a hölgyvendégek (regény)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Pantaleón og tjenerinnene
pl	Polish Pantaleon i wizytantki
sv	Swedish Pantaleón och soldatbordellen

Best Rank

English: #227327 10.2010

Global: #47844 10.2010

Best Rank

English: #158390 03.2008

Global: #53066 11.2010

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