Barents Sea

Quality:

Barents Sea - marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia. Article “Barents Sea” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Barents Sea”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1663 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 106 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 17571 times in all languages (9883^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #822 in June 2012
• Global: #1285 in June 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8832 in July 2017
• Global: #18471 in March 2022

There are 54 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	Ukrainian (uk) Баренцове море		99.8889
2	Croatian (hr) Barentsovo more		93.2208
3	English (en) Barents Sea		74.2144
4	Catalan (ca) Mar de Barentsz		71.5702
5	Russian (ru) Баренцево море		52.4776
6	Greek (el) Θάλασσα Μπάρεντς		51.7028
7	Latin (la) Mare Barentsianum		47.2038
8	Spanish (es) Mar de Barents		43.8367
9	Norwegian (no) Barentshavet		43.0045
10	Bulgarian (bg) Баренцово море		42.5521

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Barents Sea		2 979 177
2	Russian (ru) Баренцево море		2 299 081
3	German (de) Barentssee		777 669
4	Polish (pl) Morze Barentsa		586 775
5	Spanish (es) Mar de Barents		487 517
6	French (fr) Mer de Barents		383 359
7	Japanese (ja) バレンツ海		299 027
8	Italian (it) Mare di Barents		261 623
9	Dutch (nl) Barentszzee		183 735
10	Norwegian (no) Barentshavet		151 282

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) Barents Sea		18 375
2	Russian (ru) Баренцево море		5 778
3	German (de) Barentssee		3 937
4	Polish (pl) Morze Barentsa		1 448
5	French (fr) Mer de Barents		1 281
6	Spanish (es) Mar de Barents		1 024
7	Japanese (ja) バレンツ海		791
8	Finnish (fi) Barentsinmeri		698
9	Italian (it) Mare di Barents		687
10	Dutch (nl) Barentszzee		625

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Barents Sea		217
2	Russian (ru) Баренцево море		140
3	German (de) Barentssee		132
4	French (fr) Mer de Barents		98
5	Dutch (nl) Barentszzee		78
6	Italian (it) Mare di Barents		77
7	Norwegian (no) Barentshavet		51
8	Spanish (es) Mar de Barents		49
9	Hungarian (hu) Barents-tenger		47
10	Polish (pl) Morze Barentsa		44

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) Barents Sea		2
2	Russian (ru) Баренцево море		2
3	Catalan (ca) Mar de Barentsz		1
4	Czech (cs) Barentsovo moře		1
5	German (de) Barentssee		1
6	Basque (eu) Barents itsasoa		1
7	French (fr) Mer de Barents		1
8	Hebrew (he) ים ברנץ		1
9	Norwegian (no) Barentshavet		1
10	Arabic (ar) بحر بارنتس		0

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

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