Kuril Islands dispute

Quality:

Kuril Islands dispute - disagreement between Japan and Russia over sovereignty of the South Kuril Islands. Article “Kuril Islands dispute” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Kuril Islands dispute”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1457 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4545 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #281 in April 2020
• Global: #3174 in March 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4026 in November 2010
• Global: #1418 in March 2022

There are 25 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, 2025 (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	Chinese (zh) 南千島群島爭議		92.5721
2	Russian (ru) Проблема принадлежности южных Курильских островов		88.6397
3	Japanese (ja) 北方領土問題		83.9875
4	English (en) Kuril Islands dispute		83.3408
5	Hungarian (hu) A Kuril-szigetek területi konfliktusa		73.3967
6	Basque (eu) Kuril uharteetako gatazka		55.5212
7	German (de) Kurilenkonflikt		55.2131
8	Thai (th) กรณีพิพาทหมู่เกาะคูริล		46.4899
9	French (fr) Contentieux relatif aux îles Kouriles		44.4602
10	Korean (ko) 쿠릴 열도 분쟁		34.7535

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 北方領土問題		4 968 002
2	English (en) Kuril Islands dispute		2 889 410
3	Russian (ru) Проблема принадлежности южных Курильских островов		2 285 345
4	German (de) Kurilenkonflikt		372 380
5	Chinese (zh) 南千島群島爭議		283 775
6	Spanish (es) Conflicto de las islas Kuriles		237 069
7	Korean (ko) 쿠릴 열도 분쟁		215 018
8	French (fr) Contentieux relatif aux îles Kouriles		123 790
9	Italian (it) Disputa delle isole Curili		104 221
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tranh chấp quần đảo Kuril		78 603

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) Kuril Islands dispute		14 225
2	Japanese (ja) 北方領土問題		13 741
3	Russian (ru) Проблема принадлежности южных Курильских островов		5 770
4	Chinese (zh) 南千島群島爭議		2 261
5	German (de) Kurilenkonflikt		1 125
6	Spanish (es) Conflicto de las islas Kuriles		553
7	French (fr) Contentieux relatif aux îles Kouriles		542
8	Korean (ko) 쿠릴 열도 분쟁		476
9	Italian (it) Disputa delle isole Curili		380
10	Portuguese (pt) Disputa pelas Ilhas Curilas		318

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kuril Islands dispute		381
2	Japanese (ja) 北方領土問題		348
3	Russian (ru) Проблема принадлежности южных Курильских островов		213
4	German (de) Kurilenkonflikt		119
5	Spanish (es) Conflicto de las islas Kuriles		51
6	Italian (it) Disputa delle isole Curili		50
7	Korean (ko) 쿠릴 열도 분쟁		48
8	Chinese (zh) 南千島群島爭議		40
9	French (fr) Contentieux relatif aux îles Kouriles		38
10	Ukrainian (uk) Територіальні претензії щодо Курильських островів		22

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) Kuril Islands dispute		4
2	Japanese (ja) 北方領土問題		3
3	Russian (ru) Проблема принадлежности южных Курильских островов		2
4	Chinese (zh) 南千島群島爭議		2
5	Arabic (ar) نزاع جزر الكوريل		0
6	Catalan (ca) Conflicte de les Kurils		0
7	German (de) Kurilenkonflikt		0
8	Spanish (es) Conflicto de las islas Kuriles		0
9	Basque (eu) Kuril uharteetako gatazka		0
10	Persian (fa) مناقشه جزایر کوریل		0

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

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