Invasion of Poland

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1939 Invasion of Poland - German, Soviet, and Slovak attack on and takeover of Poland that marked the start of World War II. This event is the 124^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 193^rd most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Invasion of Poland” in English Wikipedia has 93.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 212 references and 24 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9877^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4706^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 193^rd most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5485^th most popular in all topics.

The 2248^th most popular in AI.

The 124^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7635^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4766^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Invasion of Poland” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 30 authors in all languages (4766^th place).

Since the creation of article “Invasion of Poland”, its content was written by 1137 registered users of English Wikipedia (4706^th place) and edited by 4856 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2248^th place).

1939 Invasion of Poland is on the 193^rd place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 124^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 7130 times in English Wikipedia (2951^st place) and cited 46558 times in all languages (3427^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #411 in July 2005
• Global: #488 in September 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1770 in March 2022
• Global: #522 in January 2017

There are 47 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) 波蘭戰役		100
2	Polish (pl) Kampania wrześniowa		99.059
3	Catalan (ca) Campanya de Polònia		98.2972
4	German (de) Überfall auf Polen		94.5469
5	Russian (ru) Польская кампания вермахта (1939)		94.0862
6	Turkish (tr) Polonya Harekâtı		93.6088
7	Portuguese (pt) Invasão da Polônia		93.3955
8	English (en) Invasion of Poland		93.2104
9	Italian (it) Campagna di Polonia		86.0316
10	Hungarian (hu) Lengyelországi hadjárat		85.0642

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Invasion of Poland		13 866 944
2	Polish (pl) Kampania wrześniowa		5 042 000
3	German (de) Überfall auf Polen		4 797 079
4	Russian (ru) Польская кампания вермахта (1939)		2 958 057
5	Spanish (es) Invasión alemana de Polonia de 1939		1 983 272
6	Japanese (ja) ポーランド侵攻		1 829 742
7	Italian (it) Campagna di Polonia		1 044 242
8	French (fr) Campagne de Pologne (1939)		996 354
9	Chinese (zh) 波蘭戰役		889 267
10	Portuguese (pt) Invasão da Polônia		638 246

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) Invasion of Poland		57 348
2	German (de) Überfall auf Polen		12 981
3	Russian (ru) Польская кампания вермахта (1939)		10 592
4	Japanese (ja) ポーランド侵攻		8 668
5	Polish (pl) Kampania wrześniowa		8 294
6	Spanish (es) Invasión alemana de Polonia de 1939		7 606
7	Chinese (zh) 波蘭戰役		5 367
8	French (fr) Campagne de Pologne (1939)		4 599
9	Italian (it) Campagna di Polonia		3 502
10	Persian (fa) تهاجم آلمان به لهستان		2 337

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Invasion of Poland		1 137
2	German (de) Überfall auf Polen		654
3	Polish (pl) Kampania wrześniowa		444
4	Russian (ru) Польская кампания вермахта (1939)		311
5	French (fr) Campagne de Pologne (1939)		265
6	Italian (it) Campagna di Polonia		181
7	Japanese (ja) ポーランド侵攻		147
8	Spanish (es) Invasión alemana de Polonia de 1939		128
9	Chinese (zh) 波蘭戰役		125
10	Dutch (nl) Poolse Veldtocht		112

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) Invasion of Poland		5
2	German (de) Überfall auf Polen		4
3	Finnish (fi) Puolan offensiivi		4
4	Russian (ru) Польская кампания вермахта (1939)		4
5	Spanish (es) Invasión alemana de Polonia de 1939		2
6	Polish (pl) Kampania wrześniowa		2
7	Turkish (tr) Polonya Harekâtı		2
8	French (fr) Campagne de Pologne (1939)		1
9	Galician (gl) Invasión de Polonia		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Lengyelországi hadjárat		1

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

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