English Channel

Quality:

English Channel - arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France. Article “English Channel” in English Wikipedia has 79.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 112 references and 33 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.8 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9436^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9221^st most popular in all topics.

The 5780^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9415^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “English Channel” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “English Channel”, its content was written by 871 registered users of English Wikipedia (9436^th place) and edited by 3357 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5780^th place).

The article is cited 7780 times in English Wikipedia (2726^th place) and cited 44066 times in all languages (3773^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #17 in June 2002
• Global: #22 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6452 in September 2010
• Global: #1383 in January 2019

There are 52 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	Hindi (hi) इंग्लिश चैनल		95.8737
2	English (en) English Channel		79.1663
3	Portuguese (pt) Canal da Mancha		77.3531
4	Catalan (ca) Canal de la Mànega		75.4499
5	French (fr) Manche (mer)		62.843
6	German (de) Ärmelkanal		47.9015
7	Latin (la) Mare Britannicum		45.1247
8	Finnish (fi) Englannin kanaali		39.2758
9	Japanese (ja) イギリス海峡		37.4853
10	Dutch (nl) Het Kanaal		37.1915

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) English Channel		9 746 621
2	Spanish (es) Canal de la Mancha		3 168 897
3	German (de) Ärmelkanal		2 429 371
4	Russian (ru) Ла-Манш		2 317 196
5	French (fr) Manche (mer)		2 233 769
6	Polish (pl) La Manche		1 603 787
7	Portuguese (pt) Canal da Mancha		1 168 905
8	Italian (it) La Manica		1 069 772
9	Czech (cs) Lamanšský průliv		542 477
10	Dutch (nl) Het Kanaal		483 549

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) English Channel		32 475
2	German (de) Ärmelkanal		14 007
3	Russian (ru) Ла-Манш		10 205
4	French (fr) Manche (mer)		9 567
5	Spanish (es) Canal de la Mancha		6 899
6	Polish (pl) La Manche		3 357
7	Romanian (ro) Canalul Mânecii		2 996
8	Italian (it) La Manica		2 858
9	Portuguese (pt) Canal da Mancha		2 168
10	Japanese (ja) イギリス海峡		1 758

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) English Channel		871
2	German (de) Ärmelkanal		263
3	French (fr) Manche (mer)		262
4	Italian (it) La Manica		152
5	Dutch (nl) Het Kanaal		146
6	Russian (ru) Ла-Манш		133
7	Spanish (es) Canal de la Mancha		111
8	Hebrew (he) תעלת למאנש		98
9	Polish (pl) La Manche		69
10	Hungarian (hu) La Manche		67

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) English Channel		5
2	Portuguese (pt) Canal da Mancha		3
3	Catalan (ca) Canal de la Mànega		1
4	Esperanto (eo) Manika Markolo		1
5	Spanish (es) Canal de la Mancha		1
6	Japanese (ja) イギリス海峡		1
7	Romanian (ro) Canalul Mânecii		1
8	Russian (ru) Ла-Манш		1
9	Slovak (sk) Lamanšský prieliv		1
10	Turkish (tr) Manş Denizi		1

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

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