International waters

Quality:

International waters - waters outside of national jurisdiction. Article “International waters” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.18 points.

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 “International waters”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 887 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 25 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5063 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1601 in September 2022
• Global: #4430 in September 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4563 in June 2010
• Global: #14141 in June 2010

There are 43 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) International waters		60.0064
2	Japanese (ja) 公海		47.9899
3	Greek (el) Ανοικτή θάλασσα		45.7989
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Internasjonalt farvatn		44.9435
5	Spanish (es) Alta mar		34.9827
6	Bulgarian (bg) Открито море		33.3964
7	Chinese (zh) 公海		31.2452
8	Portuguese (pt) Alto-mar		29.9946
9	Finnish (fi) Kansainväliset vedet		29.2496
10	Turkish (tr) Uluslararası sular		28.8293

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) International waters		3 504 263
2	Spanish (es) Alta mar		905 305
3	French (fr) Haute mer		510 826
4	Italian (it) Acque internazionali		362 903
5	German (de) Internationale Gewässer		344 464
6	Russian (ru) Открытое море		339 365
7	Chinese (zh) 公海		295 238
8	Japanese (ja) 公海		253 161
9	Arabic (ar) مياه دولية		244 907
10	Portuguese (pt) Alto-mar		201 902

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) International waters		10 305
2	German (de) Internationale Gewässer		1 420
3	French (fr) Haute mer		1 302
4	Spanish (es) Alta mar		1 154
5	Russian (ru) Открытое море		882
6	Chinese (zh) 公海		853
7	Italian (it) Acque internazionali		641
8	Japanese (ja) 公海		487
9	Persian (fa) آب‌های بین‌المللی		397
10	Dutch (nl) Internationale wateren		342

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) International waters		218
2	French (fr) Haute mer		105
3	Russian (ru) Открытое море		48
4	Italian (it) Acque internazionali		45
5	Dutch (nl) Internationale wateren		39
6	Spanish (es) Alta mar		34
7	Chinese (zh) 公海		27
8	Japanese (ja) 公海		23
9	German (de) Internationale Gewässer		22
10	Norwegian (no) Internasjonalt farvann		20

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) International waters		1
2	Esperanto (eo) Internacia maro		1
3	Arabic (ar) مياه دولية		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Neytral sular		0
5	Belarusian (be) Адкрытае мора		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Открито море		0
7	Catalan (ca) Alta mar		0
8	Czech (cs) Mezinárodní vody		0
9	Danish (da) Internationalt farvand		0
10	German (de) Internationale Gewässer		0

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

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