Battle Royale

Battle Royale - 1999 novel by Koushun Takami. This book is the 545^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 391^st most popular book in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “Battle Royale” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 5.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.28 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

Since the creation of article “Battle Royale”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and edited by 1133 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle Royale is on the 391^st place in local ranking of books in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 545^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 559 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #238 in July 2013
• Global: #5068 in February 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #15498 in January 2022
• Global: #14761 in June 2008

There are 23 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	Chinese (zh) 大逃殺		70.9492
2	English (en) Battle Royale (novel)		66.4057
3	Spanish (es) Battle Royale		56.3788
4	Japanese (ja) バトル・ロワイアル		48.2166
5	French (fr) Battle Royale (roman)		41.4243
6	Dutch (nl) Battle Royale (roman)		31.2982
7	Portuguese (pt) Battle Royale		27.7393
8	Hindi (hi) बैटल रोयाल (उपन्यास)		23.4735
9	Korean (ko) 배틀로얄 (소설)		16.8488
10	Arabic (ar) معركة ملكية		15.2529

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Battle Royale" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) バトル・ロワイアル		5 009 457
2	Spanish (es) Battle Royale		1 139 748
3	English (en) Battle Royale (novel)		966 794
4	Chinese (zh) 大逃殺		660 290
5	Portuguese (pt) Battle Royale		416 796
6	Russian (ru) Королевская битва (роман)		392 476
7	French (fr) Battle Royale (roman)		187 173
8	Italian (it) Battle Royale (romanzo)		166 490
9	Polish (pl) Battle Royale (powieść)		26 182
10	Finnish (fi) Battle Royale (kirja)		15 484

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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 "Battle Royale" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) バトル・ロワイアル		12 485
2	English (en) Battle Royale (novel)		10 819
3	Chinese (zh) 大逃殺		1 429
4	Spanish (es) Battle Royale		1 162
5	Russian (ru) Королевская битва (роман)		1 157
6	Portuguese (pt) Battle Royale		678
7	French (fr) Battle Royale (roman)		551
8	Italian (it) Battle Royale (romanzo)		473
9	Polish (pl) Battle Royale (powieść)		200
10	Korean (ko) 배틀로얄 (소설)		69

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle Royale (novel)		429
2	Japanese (ja) バトル・ロワイアル		176
3	Chinese (zh) 大逃殺		92
4	Spanish (es) Battle Royale		85
5	French (fr) Battle Royale (roman)		64
6	Portuguese (pt) Battle Royale		63
7	Italian (it) Battle Royale (romanzo)		39
8	Hungarian (hu) Battle Royale (regény)		37
9	Polish (pl) Battle Royale (powieść)		29
10	Russian (ru) Королевская битва (роман)		28

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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 "Battle Royale" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle Royale (novel)		2
2	Spanish (es) Battle Royale		2
3	Italian (it) Battle Royale (romanzo)		2
4	Russian (ru) Королевская битва (роман)		2
5	Chinese (zh) 大逃殺		1
6	Arabic (ar) معركة ملكية		0
7	Catalan (ca) Battle Royale		0
8	Persian (fa) نبرد سلطنتی (رمان)		0
9	Finnish (fi) Battle Royale (kirja)		0
10	French (fr) Battle Royale (roman)		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 "Battle Royale" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) バトル・ロワイアル		114
2	Spanish (es) Battle Royale		96
3	English (en) Battle Royale (novel)		73
4	Chinese (zh) 大逃殺		51
5	Portuguese (pt) Battle Royale		45
6	Russian (ru) Королевская битва (роман)		30
7	Polish (pl) Battle Royale (powieść)		28
8	French (fr) Battle Royale (roman)		25
9	Italian (it) Battle Royale (romanzo)		19
10	Catalan (ca) Battle Royale		13

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic معركة ملكية
ca	Catalan Battle Royale
en	English Battle Royale (novel)
es	Spanish Battle Royale
fa	Persian نبرد سلطنتی (رمان)
fi	Finnish Battle Royale (kirja)
fr	French Battle Royale (roman)
hi	Hindi बैटल रोयाल (उपन्यास)
hu	Hungarian Battle Royale (regény)
id	Indonesian Battle Royale (novel)
it	Italian Battle Royale (romanzo)
ja	Japanese バトル・ロワイアル
ko	Korean 배틀로얄 (소설)
la	Latin Battle Royale
nl	Dutch Battle Royale (roman)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Battle Royale
pl	Polish Battle Royale (powieść)
pt	Portuguese Battle Royale
ru	Russian Королевская битва (роман)
th	Thai วิชาฆ่าภาคบังคับ
tr	Turkish Batoru Rowaiaru
uk	Ukrainian Королівська битва (роман)
zh	Chinese 大逃殺

Best Rank

Norwegian (Nynorsk): #15498 01.2022

Global: #14761 06.2008

Best Rank

Norwegian (Nynorsk): #238 07.2013

Global: #5068 02.2006

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