Beluga whale

Quality:

Beluga whale - species of whale. This taxon is the 384^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 691^st most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Beluga whale” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 691^st most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8227^th most popular in AI.

The 384^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 906^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Beluga whale” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (906^th place) and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Beluga whale”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2828 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8227^th place).

Beluga whale is on the 691^st place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 384^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4707 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #241 in July 2008
• Global: #1396 in July 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4749 in May 2013
• Global: #1677 in August 2022

There are 49 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	Spanish (es) Delphinapterus leucas		100
2	Czech (cs) Běluha severní		100
3	Catalan (ca) Beluga		100
4	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-branca		92.8063
5	English (en) Beluga whale		92.299
6	Galician (gl) Beluga		77.8808
7	French (fr) Béluga (cétacé)		57.8609
8	German (de) Weißwal		56.7384
9	Korean (ko) 흰고래		54.6254
10	Russian (ru) Белуха (млекопитающее)		54.3134

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Beluga whale		8 902 597
2	Spanish (es) Delphinapterus leucas		2 087 485
3	Russian (ru) Белуха (млекопитающее)		1 701 792
4	Japanese (ja) シロイルカ		1 222 893
5	German (de) Weißwal		1 201 712
6	French (fr) Béluga (cétacé)		909 174
7	Italian (it) Delphinapterus leucas		737 201
8	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-branca		716 811
9	Chinese (zh) 白鲸		534 158
10	Polish (pl) Białucha arktyczna		318 854

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) Beluga whale		30 403
2	Russian (ru) Белуха (млекопитающее)		5 628
3	French (fr) Béluga (cétacé)		5 192
4	Spanish (es) Delphinapterus leucas		4 909
5	German (de) Weißwal		4 619
6	Japanese (ja) シロイルカ		3 915
7	Italian (it) Delphinapterus leucas		2 470
8	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-branca		2 133
9	Chinese (zh) 白鲸		1 983
10	Polish (pl) Białucha arktyczna		1 574

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Beluga whale		868
2	German (de) Weißwal		245
3	French (fr) Béluga (cétacé)		219
4	Russian (ru) Белуха (млекопитающее)		130
5	Spanish (es) Delphinapterus leucas		128
6	Dutch (nl) Witte dolfijn		107
7	Italian (it) Delphinapterus leucas		96
8	Japanese (ja) シロイルカ		94
9	Portuguese (pt) Baleia-branca		86
10	Hebrew (he) לבנתן		56

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	German (de) Weißwal		4
2	English (en) Beluga whale		4
3	Arabic (ar) حوت أبيض		2
4	Simple English (simple) Beluga whale		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Ağ balina		1
6	Catalan (ca) Beluga		1
7	Czech (cs) Běluha severní		1
8	Japanese (ja) シロイルカ		1
9	Korean (ko) 흰고래		1
10	Belarusian (be) Бялуха		0

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

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