Merchant navy

Merchant marine - organization, fleet and crew of merchant vessels operating under a national flag. Article “Merchant navy” in English Wikipedia has 59.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 25 references and 15 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Merchant navy”, its content was written by 229 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 795 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1824 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5678 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5345 in February 2019
• Global: #15422 in July 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #26837 in April 2024
• Global: #28210 in April 2024

There are 26 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	French (fr) Marine marchande		72.0936
2	English (en) Merchant navy		59.6629
3	Dutch (nl) Koopvaardij		29.5024
4	Esperanto (eo) Komerca ŝiparo		25.4868
5	Arabic (ar) التجارة البحرية		23.3723
6	Norwegian (no) Handelsflåte		23.3704
7	German (de) Handelsmarine		21.1479
8	Catalan (ca) Marina mercant		17.5467
9	Persian (fa) ناوگان بازرگانی		17.1105
10	Japanese (ja) 商船隊		13.5732

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Merchant navy" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Merchant navy		4 046 346
2	Portuguese (pt) Marinha mercante		464 135
3	Spanish (es) Marina mercante		462 869
4	French (fr) Marine marchande		426 699
5	German (de) Handelsmarine		328 447
6	Italian (it) Marina mercantile		137 337
7	Dutch (nl) Koopvaardij		129 607
8	Polish (pl) Marynarka handlowa		129 138
9	Swedish (sv) Kofferdi		40 319
10	Norwegian (no) Handelsflåte		39 628

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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 "Merchant navy" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Merchant navy		8 289
2	French (fr) Marine marchande		1 318
3	German (de) Handelsmarine		915
4	Spanish (es) Marina mercante		529
5	Portuguese (pt) Marinha mercante		506
6	Italian (it) Marina mercantile		270
7	Polish (pl) Marynarka handlowa		210
8	Dutch (nl) Koopvaardij		204
9	Swedish (sv) Kofferdi		140
10	Norwegian (no) Handelsflåte		68

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Merchant navy		229
2	French (fr) Marine marchande		128
3	German (de) Handelsmarine		79
4	Dutch (nl) Koopvaardij		53
5	Italian (it) Marina mercantile		44
6	Spanish (es) Marina mercante		37
7	Portuguese (pt) Marinha mercante		31
8	Hebrew (he) צי סוחר		22
9	Norwegian (no) Handelsflåte		22
10	Danish (da) Handelsflåden		21

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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 "Merchant navy" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Marine marchande		4
2	Hebrew (he) צי סוחר		1
3	Japanese (ja) 商船隊		1
4	Arabic (ar) التجارة البحرية		0
5	Catalan (ca) Marina mercant		0
6	Danish (da) Handelsflåden		0
7	German (de) Handelsmarine		0
8	Greek (el) Εμπορικός στόλος		0
9	English (en) Merchant navy		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Komerca ŝiparo		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 "Merchant navy" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Merchant navy		1 824
2	French (fr) Marine marchande		775
3	German (de) Handelsmarine		651
4	Spanish (es) Marina mercante		415
5	Portuguese (pt) Marinha mercante		406
6	Dutch (nl) Koopvaardij		330
7	Italian (it) Marina mercantile		239
8	Hebrew (he) צי סוחר		207
9	Catalan (ca) Marina mercant		134
10	Norwegian (no) Handelsflåte		113

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic التجارة البحرية
ca	Catalan Marina mercant
da	Danish Handelsflåden
de	German Handelsmarine
el	Greek Εμπορικός στόλος
en	English Merchant navy
eo	Esperanto Komerca ŝiparo
es	Spanish Marina mercante
eu	Basque Merkataritzako ontzidi
fa	Persian ناوگان بازرگانی
fr	French Marine marchande
gl	Galician Mariña mercante
he	Hebrew צי סוחר
hr	Croatian Trgovačka mornarica
it	Italian Marina mercantile
ja	Japanese 商船隊
ko	Korean 상선 해병
lt	Lithuanian Prekybos laivynas
nl	Dutch Koopvaardij
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Handelsflåte
no	Norwegian Handelsflåte
pl	Polish Marynarka handlowa
pt	Portuguese Marinha mercante
sh	Serbo-Croatian Trgovačka mornarica
simple	Simple English Merchant marine
sv	Swedish Kofferdi

Best Rank

English: #26837 04.2024

Global: #28210 04.2024

Best Rank

English: #5345 02.2019

Global: #15422 07.2016

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