Palk Strait

Quality:

Palk Strait - strait between India and Sri Lanka. Article “Palk Strait” in Simple English Wikipedia has 32.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Palk Strait”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 631 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1951 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2847 in December 2024
• Global: #6845 in January 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1028 in November 2022
• Global: #91618 in November 2022

There are 45 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	Latin (la) Fretum Palk		42.3513
2	Tamil (ta) பாக்கு நீரிணை		42.1013
3	Catalan (ca) Estret de Palk		40.9547
4	English (en) Palk Strait		39.9163
5	Croatian (hr) Palkov prolaz		38.8543
6	Serbian (sr) Palkov moreuz		34.8173
7	Slovenian (sl) Palkov preliv		34.1153
8	Turkish (tr) Palk Boğazı		33.5157
9	Simple English (simple) Palk Strait		32.3291
10	Spanish (es) Estrecho de Palk		32.2797

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Palk Strait		1 434 441
2	Hindi (hi) पाक जलसंधि		212 543
3	Polish (pl) Cieśnina Palk		89 259
4	Simple English (simple) Palk Strait		54 859
5	Russian (ru) Полкский пролив		50 325
6	Japanese (ja) ポーク海峡		46 318
7	German (de) Palkstraße		41 429
8	Tamil (ta) பாக்கு நீரிணை		36 233
9	French (fr) Détroit de Palk		33 460
10	Spanish (es) Estrecho de Palk		32 686

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) Palk Strait		3 779
2	Hindi (hi) पाक जलसंधि		452
3	Japanese (ja) ポーク海峡		252
4	Russian (ru) Полкский пролив		129
5	Chinese (zh) 保克海峡		107
6	German (de) Palkstraße		93
7	Polish (pl) Cieśnina Palk		92
8	Tamil (ta) பாக்கு நீரிணை		89
9	French (fr) Détroit de Palk		73
10	Spanish (es) Estrecho de Palk		64

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Palk Strait		134
2	German (de) Palkstraße		52
3	French (fr) Détroit de Palk		43
4	Russian (ru) Полкский пролив		35
5	Hindi (hi) पाक जलसंधि		33
6	Dutch (nl) Straat Palk		31
7	Italian (it) Stretto di Palk		30
8	Hebrew (he) מצר פלק		23
9	Japanese (ja) ポーク海峡		23
10	Polish (pl) Cieśnina Palk		18

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	Catalan (ca) Estret de Palk		1
2	Tamil (ta) பாக்கு நீரிணை		1
3	Arabic (ar) مضيق بالك		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Polk boğazı		0
5	Belarusian (be) Полкскі праліў		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Полкски проток		0
7	Czech (cs) Palkův průliv		0
8	German (de) Palkstraße		0
9	Greek (el) Πορθμός του Παλκ		0
10	English (en) Palk Strait		0

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

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