Polar bear

Quality:

Ursus maritimus - species of bear native largely within the Arctic Circle. This taxon is the 25^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 61^st most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Polar bear” in Simple English Wikipedia has 63.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1365^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 317^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 61^st most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1816^th most popular in all topics.

The 913^th most popular in AI.

The 25^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3726^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5281^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5646^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Polar bear”, its content was written by 141 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (317^th place) and edited by 6642 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (913^th place).

Ursus maritimus is on the 61^st place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 25^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 79 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12113 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in February 2014
• Global: #62 in November 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #411 in September 2011
• Global: #755 in January 2008

There are 54 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) Polar bear		100
2	Czech (cs) Medvěd lední		100
3	Indonesian (id) Beruang kutub		100
4	Slovak (sk) Medveď biely		100
5	Arabic (ar) دب قطبي		100
6	Portuguese (pt) Urso-polar		99.2711
7	Italian (it) Ursus maritimus		99.1304
8	Romanian (ro) Urs polar		97.1429
9	Catalan (ca) Os polar		96.1086
10	Hindi (hi) ध्रुवीय भालू		95

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Polar bear		26 105 140
2	Spanish (es) Ursus maritimus		6 011 951
3	German (de) Eisbär		5 804 898
4	Russian (ru) Белый медведь		5 327 627
5	French (fr) Ours blanc		3 545 112
6	Japanese (ja) ホッキョクグマ		3 188 550
7	Portuguese (pt) Urso-polar		2 358 556
8	Polish (pl) Niedźwiedź polarny		1 944 213
9	Chinese (zh) 北極熊		1 821 913
10	Italian (it) Ursus maritimus		1 521 732

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) Polar bear		66 752
2	Japanese (ja) ホッキョクグマ		11 573
3	German (de) Eisbär		10 316
4	Russian (ru) Белый медведь		9 725
5	Spanish (es) Ursus maritimus		7 153
6	Chinese (zh) 北極熊		5 843
7	French (fr) Ours blanc		5 139
8	Italian (it) Ursus maritimus		4 248
9	Portuguese (pt) Urso-polar		4 002
10	Polish (pl) Niedźwiedź polarny		3 151

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Polar bear		1 608
2	German (de) Eisbär		509
3	French (fr) Ours blanc		446
4	Spanish (es) Ursus maritimus		285
5	Russian (ru) Белый медведь		248
6	Italian (it) Ursus maritimus		219
7	Japanese (ja) ホッキョクグマ		216
8	Dutch (nl) IJsbeer		215
9	Hebrew (he) דוב קוטב		185
10	Portuguese (pt) Urso-polar		160

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	Italian (it) Ursus maritimus		6
2	Russian (ru) Белый медведь		3
3	Catalan (ca) Os polar		2
4	Hungarian (hu) Jegesmedve		2
5	Indonesian (id) Beruang kutub		2
6	Korean (ko) 북극곰		2
7	Arabic (ar) دب قطبي		1
8	Czech (cs) Medvěd lední		1
9	English (en) Polar bear		1
10	Spanish (es) Ursus maritimus		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information