Ship of State

Ship of state - metaphor in The Republic by Plato, likening governance of a state to the command of a ship. Article “Ship of State” in English Wikipedia has 20.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.09 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Ship of State”, its content was written by 57 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 107 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 114 times in English Wikipedia and cited 241 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #69870 in March 2019
• Global: #88673 in December 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #152223 in December 2009
• Global: #246065 in December 2009

There are 10 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	Spanish (es) Nave del Estado		29.2348
2	Dutch (nl) Het schip van staat		22.4551
3	English (en) Ship of State		20.7944
4	French (fr) Navire-État		20.4833
5	Portuguese (pt) Alegoria do navio		19.2221
6	Galician (gl) Alegoría do barco		17.2765
7	Azerbaijani (az) Dövlət gəmisi		16.9013
8	Chinese (zh) 船喻		12.687
9	Bulgarian (bg) Държавен кораб		7.4004
10	Japanese (ja) 国家の船		4.3497

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ship of State" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ship of State		449 547
2	Portuguese (pt) Alegoria do navio		14 125
3	Dutch (nl) Het schip van staat		6 165
4	Chinese (zh) 船喻		6 012
5	Spanish (es) Nave del Estado		4 349
6	Japanese (ja) 国家の船		3 922
7	Bulgarian (bg) Държавен кораб		3 086
8	French (fr) Navire-État		1 782
9	Azerbaijani (az) Dövlət gəmisi		464
10	Galician (gl) Alegoría do barco		117

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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 "Ship of State" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ship of State		1 762
2	Spanish (es) Nave del Estado		149
3	Portuguese (pt) Alegoria do navio		93
4	Chinese (zh) 船喻		84
5	French (fr) Navire-État		51
6	Japanese (ja) 国家の船		44
7	Dutch (nl) Het schip van staat		25
8	Bulgarian (bg) Държавен кораб		12
9	Azerbaijani (az) Dövlət gəmisi		7
10	Galician (gl) Alegoría do barco		3

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ship of State		57
2	Bulgarian (bg) Държавен кораб		11
3	Dutch (nl) Het schip van staat		9
4	Portuguese (pt) Alegoria do navio		9
5	French (fr) Navire-État		7
6	Chinese (zh) 船喻		5
7	Azerbaijani (az) Dövlət gəmisi		4
8	Galician (gl) Alegoría do barco		2
9	Japanese (ja) 国家の船		2
10	Spanish (es) Nave del Estado		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 "Ship of State" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) Dövlət gəmisi		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Държавен кораб		0
3	English (en) Ship of State		0
4	Spanish (es) Nave del Estado		0
5	French (fr) Navire-État		0
6	Galician (gl) Alegoría do barco		0
7	Japanese (ja) 国家の船		0
8	Dutch (nl) Het schip van staat		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Alegoria do navio		0
10	Chinese (zh) 船喻		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 "Ship of State" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ship of State		114
2	Portuguese (pt) Alegoria do navio		41
3	French (fr) Navire-État		33
4	Chinese (zh) 船喻		33
5	Japanese (ja) 国家の船		9
6	Spanish (es) Nave del Estado		5
7	Dutch (nl) Het schip van staat		3
8	Bulgarian (bg) Държавен кораб		2
9	Galician (gl) Alegoría do barco		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Dövlət gəmisi		0

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Dövlət gəmisi
bg	Bulgarian Държавен кораб
en	English Ship of State
es	Spanish Nave del Estado
fr	French Navire-État
gl	Galician Alegoría do barco
ja	Japanese 国家の船
nl	Dutch Het schip van staat
pt	Portuguese Alegoria do navio
zh	Chinese 船喻

Best Rank

English: #152223 12.2009

Global: #246065 12.2009

Best Rank

English: #69870 03.2019

Global: #88673 12.2022

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