Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Quality:

Great Pacific Garbage Patch - gyre of marine debris in the central North Pacific Ocean. Article “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7626^th place) and edited by 1923 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1637 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #371 in April 2013
• Global: #1181 in April 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #365 in July 2011
• Global: #1912 in April 2018

There are 37 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	English (en) Great Pacific Garbage Patch		88.9936
2	Chinese (zh) 太平洋垃圾帶		78.5223
3	French (fr) Vortex de déchets du Pacifique nord		43.6098
4	Croatian (hr) Veliki tihooceanski otok smeća		43.5854
5	Dutch (nl) Plasticsoep in de Noordelijke Grote Oceaan		43.218
6	Spanish (es) Gran mancha de basura en el Pacífico		42.2863
7	Catalan (ca) Sopa de plàstic del Pacífic		41.6498
8	Thai (th) แพขยะใหญ่แปซิฟิก		39.4148
9	Finnish (fi) Tyynenmeren jätepyörre		38.3204
10	Czech (cs) Velká tichomořská odpadková skvrna		37.4045

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Great Pacific Garbage Patch		16 103 803
2	Spanish (es) Gran mancha de basura en el Pacífico		2 573 235
3	Italian (it) Pacific Trash Vortex		1 583 663
4	Russian (ru) Большое тихоокеанское мусорное пятно		1 557 171
5	French (fr) Vortex de déchets du Pacifique nord		869 150
6	Polish (pl) Wielka Pacyficzna Plama Śmieci		510 406
7	Japanese (ja) 太平洋ゴミベルト		394 044
8	Korean (ko) 태평양 거대 쓰레기 지대		325 855
9	Portuguese (pt) Grande Porção de Lixo do Pacífico		272 148
10	Chinese (zh) 太平洋垃圾帶		230 294

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) Great Pacific Garbage Patch		20 282
2	French (fr) Vortex de déchets du Pacifique nord		2 849
3	Spanish (es) Gran mancha de basura en el Pacífico		2 817
4	Russian (ru) Большое тихоокеанское мусорное пятно		2 433
5	Italian (it) Pacific Trash Vortex		2 051
6	Polish (pl) Wielka Pacyficzna Plama Śmieci		1 259
7	Japanese (ja) 太平洋ゴミベルト		1 197
8	Chinese (zh) 太平洋垃圾帶		644
9	Korean (ko) 태평양 거대 쓰레기 지대		632
10	Czech (cs) Velká tichomořská odpadková skvrna		463

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Great Pacific Garbage Patch		839
2	Italian (it) Pacific Trash Vortex		150
3	French (fr) Vortex de déchets du Pacifique nord		139
4	Spanish (es) Gran mancha de basura en el Pacífico		116
5	Russian (ru) Большое тихоокеанское мусорное пятно		92
6	Dutch (nl) Plasticsoep in de Noordelijke Grote Oceaan		89
7	Finnish (fi) Tyynenmeren jätepyörre		41
8	Japanese (ja) 太平洋ゴミベルト		37
9	Czech (cs) Velká tichomořská odpadková skvrna		35
10	Hebrew (he) שטח הפסולת של האוקיינוס השקט		35

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) Great Pacific Garbage Patch		3
2	Russian (ru) Большое тихоокеанское мусорное пятно		3
3	Spanish (es) Gran mancha de basura en el Pacífico		1
4	French (fr) Vortex de déchets du Pacifique nord		1
5	Italian (it) Pacific Trash Vortex		1
6	Arabic (ar) دوامة نفايات شمال المحيط الهادئ		0
7	Belarusian (be) Вялікая ціхаакіянская смеццевая пляма		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Голямо тихоокеанско сметище		0
9	Catalan (ca) Sopa de plàstic del Pacífic		0
10	Czech (cs) Velká tichomořská odpadková skvrna		0

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

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