First island chain

First island chain - first chain of major archipelagos out from the East Asian continental mainland coast. Article “First island chain” in English Wikipedia has 41.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

Since the creation of article “First island chain”, its content was written by 45 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 174 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in English Wikipedia and cited 458 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #49944 in June 2019
• Global: #31498 in July 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #144263 in August 2022
• Global: #89141 in August 2022

There are 7 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	Chinese (zh) 第一島鏈		43.9252
2	English (en) First island chain		41.2433
3	Vietnamese (vi) Chuỗi đảo thứ nhất		36.177
4	Arabic (ar) سلسلة الجزر الأولى		32.0346
5	Indonesian (id) Rantai pulau pertama		18.6299
6	Japanese (ja) 第一列島線		12.5976
7	Korean (ko) 제1열도선		9.804

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

The most popular language versions of the article "First island chain" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 第一列島線		563 384
2	Chinese (zh) 第一島鏈		487 003
3	English (en) First island chain		388 928
4	Korean (ko) 제1열도선		14 504
5	Vietnamese (vi) Chuỗi đảo thứ nhất		1 205
6	Indonesian (id) Rantai pulau pertama		595
7	Arabic (ar) سلسلة الجزر الأولى		1

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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 "First island chain" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 第一列島線		4 631
2	Chinese (zh) 第一島鏈		4 339
3	English (en) First island chain		3 844
4	Korean (ko) 제1열도선		89
5	Vietnamese (vi) Chuỗi đảo thứ nhất		89
6	Indonesian (id) Rantai pulau pertama		10
7	Arabic (ar) سلسلة الجزر الأولى		1

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

Language versions of the article "First island chain" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 第一島鏈		67
2	Japanese (ja) 第一列島線		54
3	English (en) First island chain		45
4	Korean (ko) 제1열도선		5
5	Arabic (ar) سلسلة الجزر الأولى		1
6	Indonesian (id) Rantai pulau pertama		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Chuỗi đảo thứ nhất		1

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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 "First island chain" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) سلسلة الجزر الأولى		2
2	Chinese (zh) 第一島鏈		1
3	English (en) First island chain		0
4	Indonesian (id) Rantai pulau pertama		0
5	Japanese (ja) 第一列島線		0
6	Korean (ko) 제1열도선		0
7	Vietnamese (vi) Chuỗi đảo thứ nhất		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 "First island chain" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 第一島鏈		374
2	Japanese (ja) 第一列島線		46
3	English (en) First island chain		29
4	Korean (ko) 제1열도선		4
5	Arabic (ar) سلسلة الجزر الأولى		3
6	Indonesian (id) Rantai pulau pertama		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Chuỗi đảo thứ nhất		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سلسلة الجزر الأولى
en	English First island chain
id	Indonesian Rantai pulau pertama
ja	Japanese 第一列島線
ko	Korean 제1열도선
vi	Vietnamese Chuỗi đảo thứ nhất
zh	Chinese 第一島鏈

Best Rank

English: #144263 08.2022

Global: #89141 08.2022

Best Rank

English: #49944 06.2019

Global: #31498 07.2005

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