Sea captain

Ship captain - commander of a ship or other sea-going vessel. Article “Sea captain” in English Wikipedia has 69.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 38 references and 17 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Sea captain” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sea captain”, its content was written by 361 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1073 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2327 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10181 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1555 in July 2002
• Global: #2332 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #26537 in January 2012
• Global: #20418 in January 2012

There are 36 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	Indonesian (id) Nakhoda		74.3164
2	English (en) Sea captain		69.0769
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Skipsførar		45.9708
4	German (de) Kapitän		41.9046
5	Arabic (ar) قبطان		30.8766
6	Italian (it) Comandante (nautica)		30.6434
7	Czech (cs) Kapitán lodi		30.6272
8	Korean (ko) 선장		30.1162
9	Norwegian (no) Skipsfører		29.2323
10	French (fr) Capitaine de navire		27.2359

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Sea captain" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sea captain		2 842 813
2	German (de) Kapitän		952 251
3	Japanese (ja) 船長		511 926
4	Russian (ru) Капитан судна		375 340
5	French (fr) Capitaine de navire		260 162
6	Indonesian (id) Nakhoda		260 042
7	Portuguese (pt) Capitão (náutica)		221 642
8	Italian (it) Comandante (nautica)		188 174
9	Arabic (ar) قبطان		181 565
10	Chinese (zh) 船長		151 383

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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 "Sea captain" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sea captain		7 880
2	German (de) Kapitän		1 801
3	Russian (ru) Капитан судна		1 516
4	Japanese (ja) 船長		1 199
5	Persian (fa) ناخدا		1 189
6	Chinese (zh) 船長		773
7	French (fr) Capitaine de navire		611
8	Italian (it) Comandante (nautica)		600
9	Arabic (ar) قبطان		422
10	Indonesian (id) Nakhoda		405

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sea captain		361
2	German (de) Kapitän		156
3	Russian (ru) Капитан судна		50
4	Dutch (nl) Kapitein (schip)		44
5	Hebrew (he) רב-חובל		40
6	Italian (it) Comandante (nautica)		38
7	Japanese (ja) 船長		38
8	Finnish (fi) Merikapteeni		34
9	French (fr) Capitaine de navire		29
10	Swedish (sv) Sjökapten		23

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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 "Sea captain" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) قبطان		2
2	Turkish (tr) Kaptan		2
3	English (en) Sea captain		1
4	Hebrew (he) רב-חובל		1
5	Indonesian (id) Nakhoda		1
6	Italian (it) Comandante (nautica)		1
7	Korean (ko) 선장		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Gəmi kapitanı		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Капитан на кораб		0
10	Czech (cs) Kapitán lodi		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 "Sea captain" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Sea captain		2 327
2	German (de) Kapitän		1 348
3	Japanese (ja) 船長		1 011
4	French (fr) Capitaine de navire		757
5	Chinese (zh) 船長		739
6	Hebrew (he) רב-חובל		582
7	Russian (ru) Капитан судна		413
8	Italian (it) Comandante (nautica)		313
9	Dutch (nl) Kapitein (schip)		261
10	Swedish (sv) Sjökapten		234

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قبطان
az	Azerbaijani Gəmi kapitanı
bg	Bulgarian Капитан на кораб
cs	Czech Kapitán lodi
da	Danish Kaptajn (transport)
de	German Kapitän
el	Greek Καπετάνιος
en	English Sea captain
eo	Esperanto Ŝipestro
es	Spanish Capitán (náutica)
et	Estonian Laevakapten
fa	Persian ناخدا
fi	Finnish Merikapteeni
fr	French Capitaine de navire
he	Hebrew רב-חובל
hi	Hindi समुद्री कप्तान
hu	Hungarian Kapitány
id	Indonesian Nakhoda
it	Italian Comandante (nautica)
ja	Japanese 船長
ko	Korean 선장
lt	Lithuanian Laivo kapitonas
ms	Malay Nakhoda
nl	Dutch Kapitein (schip)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Skipsførar
no	Norwegian Skipsfører
pl	Polish Kapitan (żegluga)
pt	Portuguese Capitão (náutica)
ru	Russian Капитан судна
simple	Simple English Sea captain
sl	Slovenian Kapitan (poklic)
sv	Swedish Sjökapten
tr	Turkish Kaptan
uk	Ukrainian Капітан судна
ur	Urdu بحری کپتان
zh	Chinese 船長

Best Rank

English: #26537 01.2012

Global: #20418 01.2012

Best Rank

English: #1555 07.2002

Global: #2332 07.2002

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