Philip II of Spain

Quality:

Philip II of Spain - King of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily; King consort of England, lived 1527-1598. This person is the 1228^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 970^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Philip II of Spain” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Catalan 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 7223^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3372^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 970^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4043^rd most popular in all topics.

The 2432^nd most popular in AI.

The 1228^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4684^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3859^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3998^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Philip II of Spain”, its content was written by 43 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3372^nd place) and edited by 4750 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2432^nd place).

Philip II of Spain is on the 970^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1228^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 134 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 36728 times in all languages (4456^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #153 in October 2015
• Global: #434 in September 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1128 in September 2009
• Global: #730 in January 2016

There are 53 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	Catalan (ca) Felip II de Castella		84.9058
2	Dutch (nl) Filips II van Spanje		82.403
3	German (de) Philipp II. (Spanien)		82.008
4	English (en) Philip II of Spain		81.0797
5	Italian (it) Filippo II di Spagna		75.2575
6	Spanish (es) Felipe II de España		73.2086
7	Finnish (fi) Filip II (Espanja)		71.0561
8	Galician (gl) Filipe II de España		67.5455
9	Portuguese (pt) Filipe II de Espanha		64.3638
10	Georgian (ka) ფილიპე II (ესპანეთი)		61.0971

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Philip II of Spain		16 695 356
2	Spanish (es) Felipe II de España		12 452 920
3	Italian (it) Filippo II di Spagna		2 192 531
4	Russian (ru) Филипп II (король Испании)		2 027 684
5	French (fr) Philippe II (roi d'Espagne)		1 950 076
6	German (de) Philipp II. (Spanien)		1 782 799
7	Portuguese (pt) Filipe II de Espanha		1 581 821
8	Dutch (nl) Filips II van Spanje		1 456 215
9	Japanese (ja) フェリペ2世 (スペイン王)		1 274 511
10	Polish (pl) Filip II Habsburg		774 824

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) Philip II of Spain		87 523
2	Spanish (es) Felipe II de España		44 065
3	Russian (ru) Филипп II (король Испании)		10 368
4	French (fr) Philippe II (roi d'Espagne)		9 266
5	Italian (it) Filippo II di Spagna		8 224
6	Portuguese (pt) Filipe II de Espanha		6 745
7	German (de) Philipp II. (Spanien)		6 008
8	Japanese (ja) フェリペ2世 (スペイン王)		5 925
9	Polish (pl) Filip II Habsburg		3 845
10	Dutch (nl) Filips II van Spanje		3 733

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Philip II of Spain		1 261
2	Spanish (es) Felipe II de España		498
3	German (de) Philipp II. (Spanien)		319
4	French (fr) Philippe II (roi d'Espagne)		304
5	Italian (it) Filippo II di Spagna		280
6	Dutch (nl) Filips II van Spanje		256
7	Portuguese (pt) Filipe II de Espanha		147
8	Russian (ru) Филипп II (король Испании)		141
9	Chinese (zh) 腓力二世 (西班牙)		89
10	Polish (pl) Filip II Habsburg		86

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	Spanish (es) Felipe II de España		9
2	English (en) Philip II of Spain		5
3	French (fr) Philippe II (roi d'Espagne)		3
4	Italian (it) Filippo II di Spagna		3
5	Arabic (ar) فيليب الثاني ملك إسبانيا		2
6	Catalan (ca) Felip II de Castella		2
7	Hebrew (he) פליפה השני, מלך ספרד		2
8	Chinese (zh) 腓力二世 (西班牙)		2
9	Azerbaijani (az) II Filipp (İspaniya kralı)		1
10	Japanese (ja) フェリペ2世 (スペイン王)		1

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

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