The Sea (novel)

The Sea - novel by John Banville. This book is the 6780^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Sea (novel)” in English Wikipedia has 26.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 8 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “The Sea (novel)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Sea (novel)”, its content was written by 69 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 189 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Sea is on the 6780^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 166 times in English Wikipedia and cited 482 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #23564 in October 2005
• Global: #67745 in October 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #134980 in June 2016
• Global: #135838 in December 2020

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	German (de) Die See		67.2005
2	Spanish (es) El mar		47.6281
3	English (en) The Sea (novel)		26.7894
4	Russian (ru) Море (роман)		22.4801
5	Arabic (ar) البحر (رواية)		21.711
6	Chinese (zh) 大海 (小說)		14.0444
7	Persian (fa) دریا (رمان)		11.6124
8	Norwegian (no) Havet (roman)		8.2651
9	Korean (ko) 바다 (소설)		7.4551
10	Italian (it) Il mare (romanzo)		3.0967

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Sea (novel)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Sea (novel)		615 696
2	German (de) Die See		69 479
3	Spanish (es) El mar		52 266
4	Italian (it) Il mare (romanzo)		15 475
5	Chinese (zh) 大海 (小說)		8 612
6	Persian (fa) دریا (رمان)		6 474
7	Norwegian (no) Havet (roman)		5 075
8	Korean (ko) 바다 (소설)		1 407
9	Russian (ru) Море (роман)		717
10	Arabic (ar) البحر (رواية)		421

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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 "The Sea (novel)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Sea (novel)		2 940
2	Spanish (es) El mar		292
3	German (de) Die See		216
4	Russian (ru) Море (роман)		119
5	Italian (it) Il mare (romanzo)		72
6	Chinese (zh) 大海 (小說)		62
7	Norwegian (no) Havet (roman)		33
8	Korean (ko) 바다 (소설)		19
9	Persian (fa) دریا (رمان)		12
10	Arabic (ar) البحر (رواية)		11

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Sea (novel)		69
2	German (de) Die See		61
3	Norwegian (no) Havet (roman)		16
4	Spanish (es) El mar		13
5	Persian (fa) دریا (رمان)		9
6	Italian (it) Il mare (romanzo)		8
7	Chinese (zh) 大海 (小說)		8
8	Arabic (ar) البحر (رواية)		2
9	Russian (ru) Море (роман)		2
10	Korean (ko) 바다 (소설)		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 "The Sea (novel)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Sea (novel)		1
2	Arabic (ar) البحر (رواية)		0
3	German (de) Die See		0
4	Spanish (es) El mar		0
5	Persian (fa) دریا (رمان)		0
6	Italian (it) Il mare (romanzo)		0
7	Korean (ko) 바다 (소설)		0
8	Norwegian (no) Havet (roman)		0
9	Russian (ru) Море (роман)		0
10	Chinese (zh) 大海 (小說)		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 "The Sea (novel)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Sea (novel)		166
2	Persian (fa) دریا (رمان)		123
3	Arabic (ar) البحر (رواية)		90
4	Chinese (zh) 大海 (小說)		62
5	German (de) Die See		11
6	Spanish (es) El mar		8
7	Italian (it) Il mare (romanzo)		6
8	Norwegian (no) Havet (roman)		6
9	Korean (ko) 바다 (소설)		5
10	Russian (ru) Море (роман)		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic البحر (رواية)
de	German Die See
en	English The Sea (novel)
es	Spanish El mar
fa	Persian دریا (رمان)
it	Italian Il mare (romanzo)
ko	Korean 바다 (소설)
no	Norwegian Havet (roman)
ru	Russian Море (роман)
zh	Chinese 大海 (小說)

Best Rank

English: #134980 06.2016

Global: #135838 12.2020

Best Rank

English: #23564 10.2005

Global: #67745 10.2005

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