Affondamento della Cheonan

ROKS Cheonan sinking - combat incident between North and South Korea. Article “Affondamento della Cheonan” in Italian Wikipedia has 32.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Affondamento della Cheonan”, its content was written by 31 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 952 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 1205 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #13296 in June 2010
• Global: #96 in May 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #55042 in April 2020
• Global: #2465 in April 2014

There are 15 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	English (en) ROKS Cheonan sinking		96.4929
2	Korean (ko) 천안함 피격 사건		89.2946
3	Hebrew (he) טיבוע הקורבטה צ'אונן		85.334
4	Chinese (zh) 天安号沉没事件		68.5644
5	Malay (ms) Peristiwa Baengnyeong		51.3799
6	French (fr) Incident de Baengnyeong		36.0629
7	Greek (el) Ναυάγιο του Τσεονάν		34.3845
8	Russian (ru) Гибель корвета «Чхонан»		34.2888
9	Polish (pl) Incydent koło Wyspy Baengnyeong		34.0682
10	Italian (it) Affondamento della Cheonan		32.0934

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Affondamento della Cheonan" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) ROKS Cheonan sinking		2 113 284
2	Korean (ko) 천안함 피격 사건		2 089 341
3	Japanese (ja) 天安沈没事件		647 404
4	Chinese (zh) 天安号沉没事件		503 312
5	Russian (ru) Гибель корвета «Чхонан»		118 531
6	French (fr) Incident de Baengnyeong		63 254
7	Polish (pl) Incydent koło Wyspy Baengnyeong		45 323
8	Italian (it) Affondamento della Cheonan		42 609
9	Vietnamese (vi) Sự cố đắm tàu Cheonan		29 976
10	Finnish (fi) Korvetti Cheonanin uppoaminen		22 910

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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 "Affondamento della Cheonan" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) ROKS Cheonan sinking		8 258
2	Korean (ko) 천안함 피격 사건		3 340
3	Chinese (zh) 天安号沉没事件		1 999
4	Japanese (ja) 天安沈没事件		1 823
5	Russian (ru) Гибель корвета «Чхонан»		533
6	French (fr) Incident de Baengnyeong		293
7	Italian (it) Affondamento della Cheonan		186
8	Polish (pl) Incydent koło Wyspy Baengnyeong		136
9	Finnish (fi) Korvetti Cheonanin uppoaminen		106
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sự cố đắm tàu Cheonan		76

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) ROKS Cheonan sinking		297
2	Korean (ko) 천안함 피격 사건		245
3	Chinese (zh) 天安号沉没事件		135
4	Japanese (ja) 天安沈没事件		44
5	French (fr) Incident de Baengnyeong		41
6	Russian (ru) Гибель корвета «Чхонан»		36
7	Italian (it) Affondamento della Cheonan		31
8	Polish (pl) Incydent koło Wyspy Baengnyeong		27
9	Finnish (fi) Korvetti Cheonanin uppoaminen		25
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sự cố đắm tàu Cheonan		22

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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 "Affondamento della Cheonan" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Finnish (fi) Korvetti Cheonanin uppoaminen		1
2	Korean (ko) 천안함 피격 사건		1
3	Polish (pl) Incydent koło Wyspy Baengnyeong		1
4	Arabic (ar) غرق الفرقيطة تشونان		0
5	Greek (el) Ναυάγιο του Τσεονάν		0
6	English (en) ROKS Cheonan sinking		0
7	French (fr) Incident de Baengnyeong		0
8	Hebrew (he) טיבוע הקורבטה צ'אונן		0
9	Italian (it) Affondamento della Cheonan		0
10	Japanese (ja) 天安沈没事件		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 "Affondamento della Cheonan" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Korean (ko) 천안함 피격 사건		340
2	Chinese (zh) 天安号沉没事件		236
3	English (en) ROKS Cheonan sinking		185
4	French (fr) Incident de Baengnyeong		184
5	Japanese (ja) 天安沈没事件		114
6	Russian (ru) Гибель корвета «Чхонан»		58
7	Italian (it) Affondamento della Cheonan		17
8	Vietnamese (vi) Sự cố đắm tàu Cheonan		15
9	Malay (ms) Peristiwa Baengnyeong		14
10	Polish (pl) Incydent koło Wyspy Baengnyeong		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic غرق الفرقيطة تشونان
el	Greek Ναυάγιο του Τσεονάν
en	English ROKS Cheonan sinking
fi	Finnish Korvetti Cheonanin uppoaminen
fr	French Incident de Baengnyeong
he	Hebrew טיבוע הקורבטה צ'אונן
it	Italian Affondamento della Cheonan
ja	Japanese 天安沈没事件
ko	Korean 천안함 피격 사건
ms	Malay Peristiwa Baengnyeong
pl	Polish Incydent koło Wyspy Baengnyeong
ru	Russian Гибель корвета «Чхонан»
uk	Ukrainian Інцидент з корветом «Чхонан»
vi	Vietnamese Sự cố đắm tàu Cheonan
zh	Chinese 天安号沉没事件

Best Rank

Italian: #55042 04.2020

Global: #2465 04.2014

Best Rank

Italian: #13296 06.2010

Global: #96 05.2010

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