Dunkirk evacuation

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Dunkirk evacuation - evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940. This event is the 284^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 180^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Dunkirk evacuation” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 193 references and 24 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9317^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

The 180^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 284^th most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “Dunkirk evacuation” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Dunkirk evacuation”, its content was written by 621 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1808 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Dunkirk evacuation is on the 180^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 284^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 2718 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6902 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #350 in July 2017
• Global: #320 in July 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #27 in July 2017
• Global: #41 in July 2017

There are 44 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	English (en) Dunkirk evacuation		100
2	Chinese (zh) 敦刻尔克撤退		100
3	Azerbaijani (az) Dinamo əməliyyatı		95.003
4	Norwegian (no) Evakueringen fra Dunkerque		88.6701
5	Greek (el) Εκκένωση της Δουνκέρκης		85.1322
6	Romanian (ro) Operațiunea Dynamo		79.4589
7	Spanish (es) Operación Dinamo		66.2172
8	Italian (it) Operazione Dynamo		55.8319
9	Russian (ru) Дюнкеркская операция		55.8302
10	Hungarian (hu) Dinamó hadművelet		55.013

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dunkirk evacuation		14 388 506
2	Spanish (es) Operación Dinamo		1 207 360
3	German (de) Operation Dynamo		823 033
4	French (fr) Évacuation de Dunkerque		749 340
5	Japanese (ja) ダイナモ作戦		745 009
6	Italian (it) Operazione Dynamo		732 724
7	Polish (pl) Operacja Dynamo		721 576
8	Russian (ru) Дюнкеркская операция		483 581
9	Portuguese (pt) Operação Dínamo		304 607
10	Hebrew (he) מבצע דינמו		197 082

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) Dunkirk evacuation		57 473
2	French (fr) Évacuation de Dunkerque		5 441
3	Russian (ru) Дюнкеркская операция		4 224
4	Spanish (es) Operación Dinamo		3 206
5	German (de) Operation Dynamo		3 054
6	Italian (it) Operazione Dynamo		2 354
7	Japanese (ja) ダイナモ作戦		2 155
8	Chinese (zh) 敦刻尔克撤退		1 726
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Dynamo		1 577
10	Turkish (tr) Dunkerque Tahliyesi		1 006

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dunkirk evacuation		621
2	German (de) Operation Dynamo		130
3	French (fr) Évacuation de Dunkerque		94
4	Russian (ru) Дюнкеркская операция		87
5	Italian (it) Operazione Dynamo		85
6	Spanish (es) Operación Dinamo		77
7	Hebrew (he) מבצע דינמו		51
8	Dutch (nl) Operatie Dynamo		50
9	Czech (cs) Operace Dynamo		42
10	Japanese (ja) ダイナモ作戦		40

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	English (en) Dunkirk evacuation		4
2	Catalan (ca) Evacuació de Dunkerque		2
3	French (fr) Évacuation de Dunkerque		2
4	Chinese (zh) 敦刻尔克撤退		2
5	German (de) Operation Dynamo		1
6	Malay (ms) Pemindahan Dunkirk		1
7	Portuguese (pt) Operação Dínamo		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Дюнкерська евакуація		1
9	Arabic (ar) انسحاب دونكيرك		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Dinamo əməliyyatı		0

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

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