Sinking of ROKS Cheonan

Quality:

ROKS Cheonan sinking - combat incident between North and South Korea. Article “Sinking of ROKS Cheonan” in English Wikipedia has 96.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 168 references and 23 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Sinking of ROKS Cheonan” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sinking of ROKS Cheonan”, its content was written by 315 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 990 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 200 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1248 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #47 in May 2010
• Global: #96 in May 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1153 in May 2010
• Global: #2542 in April 2014

There are 16 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	English (en) Sinking of ROKS Cheonan		96.5761
2	Portuguese (pt) Afundamento do ROKS Cheonan		94.5957
3	Korean (ko) 천안함 피격 사건		89.0827
4	Hebrew (he) טיבוע הקורבטה צ'אונן		83.7443
5	Chinese (zh) 天安号沉没事件		68.433
6	Malay (ms) Peristiwa Baengnyeong		52.3641
7	French (fr) Incident de Baengnyeong		35.0254
8	Greek (el) Ναυάγιο του Τσεονάν		34.54
9	Polish (pl) Incydent koło Wyspy Baengnyeong		33.977
10	Russian (ru) Гибель корвета «Чхонан»		32.8753

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sinking of ROKS Cheonan		2 185 734
2	Korean (ko) 천안함 피격 사건		2 129 511
3	Japanese (ja) 天安沈没事件		671 566
4	Chinese (zh) 天安号沉没事件		523 205
5	Russian (ru) Гибель корвета «Чхонан»		126 745
6	French (fr) Incident de Baengnyeong		67 655
7	Polish (pl) Incydent koło Wyspy Baengnyeong		47 478
8	Italian (it) Affondamento della Cheonan		44 959
9	Vietnamese (vi) Sự cố đắm tàu Cheonan		30 912
10	Finnish (fi) Korvetti Cheonanin uppoaminen		23 407

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) Sinking of ROKS Cheonan		6 164
2	Korean (ko) 천안함 피격 사건		3 651
3	Japanese (ja) 天安沈没事件		1 782
4	Chinese (zh) 天安号沉没事件		1 428
5	Russian (ru) Гибель корвета «Чхонан»		285
6	French (fr) Incident de Baengnyeong		197
7	Italian (it) Affondamento della Cheonan		138
8	Polish (pl) Incydent koło Wyspy Baengnyeong		125
9	Vietnamese (vi) Sự cố đắm tàu Cheonan		62
10	Greek (el) Ναυάγιο του Τσεονάν		31

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sinking of ROKS Cheonan		315
2	Korean (ko) 천안함 피격 사건		246
3	Chinese (zh) 天安号沉没事件		139
4	Japanese (ja) 天安沈没事件		45
5	French (fr) Incident de Baengnyeong		44
6	Russian (ru) Гибель корвета «Чхонан»		38
7	Italian (it) Affondamento della Cheonan		32
8	Polish (pl) Incydent koło Wyspy Baengnyeong		28
9	Finnish (fi) Korvetti Cheonanin uppoaminen		25
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sự cố đắm tàu Cheonan		22

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) Sinking of ROKS Cheonan		6
2	Korean (ko) 천안함 피격 사건		6
3	Japanese (ja) 天安沈没事件		1
4	Arabic (ar) غرق الفرقيطة تشونان		0
5	Greek (el) Ναυάγιο του Τσεονάν		0
6	Finnish (fi) Korvetti Cheonanin uppoaminen		0
7	French (fr) Incident de Baengnyeong		0
8	Hebrew (he) טיבוע הקורבטה צ'אונן		0
9	Italian (it) Affondamento della Cheonan		0
10	Malay (ms) Peristiwa Baengnyeong		0

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

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