Cuban Missile Crisis

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Cuban Missile Crisis - October 1962 confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States. This event is the 52^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 17^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Cuban Missile Crisis” in Simple English Wikipedia has 47.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 14 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 669^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 359^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 17^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1875^th most popular in all topics.

The 1050^th most popular in AI.

The 52^nd most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3725^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5523^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2500^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Cuban Missile Crisis”, its content was written by 135 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (359^th place) and edited by 6350 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1050^th place).

Cuban Missile Crisis is on the 17^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 52^nd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 65 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16258 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #7 in January 2008
• Global: #346 in April 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #60 in May 2008
• Global: #311 in March 2022

There are 52 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	Italian (it) Crisi dei missili di Cuba		97.4055
2	Catalan (ca) Crisi dels míssils de Cuba		95.9322
3	Swedish (sv) Kubakrisen		87.9077
4	Hindi (hi) क्यूबाई मिसाइल संकट		87.1972
5	English (en) Cuban Missile Crisis		82.1129
6	Vietnamese (vi) Khủng hoảng tên lửa Cuba		79.4477
7	Japanese (ja) キューバ危機		69.6305
8	Russian (ru) Карибский кризис		65.5361
9	German (de) Kubakrise		59.6308
10	Croatian (hr) Kubanska kriza		59.4377

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cuban Missile Crisis		29 490 572
2	Russian (ru) Карибский кризис		7 278 227
3	Spanish (es) Crisis de los misiles de Cuba		5 858 039
4	German (de) Kubakrise		5 365 431
5	Japanese (ja) キューバ危機		3 518 752
6	French (fr) Crise des missiles de Cuba		3 257 849
7	Italian (it) Crisi dei missili di Cuba		1 767 679
8	Chinese (zh) 古巴导弹危机		1 764 393
9	Portuguese (pt) Crise dos mísseis de Cuba		1 413 821
10	Polish (pl) Kryzys kubański		1 255 081

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) Cuban Missile Crisis		65 263
2	Russian (ru) Карибский кризис		10 982
3	German (de) Kubakrise		10 406
4	Japanese (ja) キューバ危機		10 304
5	Spanish (es) Crisis de los misiles de Cuba		9 892
6	French (fr) Crise des missiles de Cuba		8 019
7	Italian (it) Crisi dei missili di Cuba		4 674
8	Chinese (zh) 古巴导弹危机		4 510
9	Persian (fa) بحران موشکی کوبا		2 828
10	Polish (pl) Kryzys kubański		2 158

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cuban Missile Crisis		2 304
2	German (de) Kubakrise		580
3	French (fr) Crise des missiles de Cuba		341
4	Russian (ru) Карибский кризис		315
5	Spanish (es) Crisis de los misiles de Cuba		260
6	Italian (it) Crisi dei missili di Cuba		227
7	Japanese (ja) キューバ危機		201
8	Dutch (nl) Cubacrisis		167
9	Simple English (simple) Cuban Missile Crisis		135
10	Chinese (zh) 古巴导弹危机		134

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) Cuban Missile Crisis		12
2	German (de) Kubakrise		5
3	French (fr) Crise des missiles de Cuba		4
4	Azerbaijani (az) Karib böhranı		2
5	Catalan (ca) Crisi dels míssils de Cuba		2
6	Persian (fa) بحران موشکی کوبا		2
7	Hindi (hi) क्यूबाई मिसाइल संकट		2
8	Italian (it) Crisi dei missili di Cuba		2
9	Japanese (ja) キューバ危機		2
10	Swedish (sv) Kubakrisen		2

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

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