Sea captain

Ship captain - commander of a ship or other sea-going vessel. Article “Sea captain” in Simple English Wikipedia has 1.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Sea captain”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1097 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 35 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10878 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1352 in March 2019
• Global: #2327 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #15963 in March 2012
• Global: #20456 in January 2012

There are 36 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	Indonesian (id) Nakhoda		71.8917
2	English (en) Sea captain		69.3598
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Skipsførar		45.9708
4	German (de) Kapitän		41.0062
5	Czech (cs) Kapitán lodi		32.8794
6	Arabic (ar) قبطان		31.3341
7	Italian (it) Comandante (nautica)		30.8273
8	Korean (ko) 선장		30.1649
9	Norwegian (no) Skipsfører		29.0949
10	French (fr) Capitaine de navire		25.6604

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Sea captain" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sea captain		2 934 437
2	German (de) Kapitän		977 987
3	Japanese (ja) 船長		529 126
4	Russian (ru) Капитан судна		401 366
5	French (fr) Capitaine de navire		268 122
6	Indonesian (id) Nakhoda		264 154
7	Portuguese (pt) Capitão (náutica)		224 685
8	Italian (it) Comandante (nautica)		195 342
9	Arabic (ar) قبطان		185 852
10	Chinese (zh) 船長		157 839

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Sea captain" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sea captain		6 444
2	Russian (ru) Капитан судна		1 795
3	German (de) Kapitän		1 698
4	Japanese (ja) 船長		1 055
5	French (fr) Capitaine de navire		788
6	Persian (fa) ناخدا		479
7	Italian (it) Comandante (nautica)		479
8	Chinese (zh) 船長		432
9	Turkish (tr) Kaptan		254
10	Indonesian (id) Nakhoda		243

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

Language versions of the article "Sea captain" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sea captain		365
2	German (de) Kapitän		157
3	Russian (ru) Капитан судна		51
4	Dutch (nl) Kapitein (schip)		44
5	Hebrew (he) רב-חובל		41
6	Italian (it) Comandante (nautica)		40
7	Japanese (ja) 船長		40
8	Finnish (fi) Merikapteeni		36
9	French (fr) Capitaine de navire		30
10	Swedish (sv) Sjökapten		24

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

Language versions of the article "Sea captain" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sea captain		2
2	Arabic (ar) قبطان		1
3	German (de) Kapitän		1
4	Spanish (es) Capitán (náutica)		1
5	Japanese (ja) 船長		1
6	Swedish (sv) Sjökapten		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Gəmi kapitanı		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Капитан на кораб		0
9	Czech (cs) Kapitán lodi		0
10	Danish (da) Kaptajn (transport)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Sea captain" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Sea captain		2 417
2	German (de) Kapitän		1 388
3	Japanese (ja) 船長		1 023
4	French (fr) Capitaine de navire		882
5	Chinese (zh) 船長		780
6	Hebrew (he) רב-חובל		611
7	Russian (ru) Капитан судна		432
8	Italian (it) Comandante (nautica)		344
9	Dutch (nl) Kapitein (schip)		273
10	Swedish (sv) Sjökapten		259

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قبطان
az	Azerbaijani Gəmi kapitanı
bg	Bulgarian Капитан на кораб
cs	Czech Kapitán lodi
da	Danish Kaptajn (transport)
de	German Kapitän
el	Greek Καπετάνιος
en	English Sea captain
eo	Esperanto Ŝipestro
es	Spanish Capitán (náutica)
et	Estonian Laevakapten
fa	Persian ناخدا
fi	Finnish Merikapteeni
fr	French Capitaine de navire
he	Hebrew רב-חובל
hi	Hindi समुद्री कप्तान
hu	Hungarian Kapitány
id	Indonesian Nakhoda
it	Italian Comandante (nautica)
ja	Japanese 船長
ko	Korean 선장
lt	Lithuanian Laivo kapitonas
ms	Malay Nakhoda
nl	Dutch Kapitein (schip)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Skipsførar
no	Norwegian Skipsfører
pl	Polish Kapitan (żegluga)
pt	Portuguese Capitão (náutica)
ru	Russian Капитан судна
simple	Simple English Sea captain
sl	Slovenian Kapitan (poklic)
sv	Swedish Sjökapten
tr	Turkish Kaptan
uk	Ukrainian Капітан судна
ur	Urdu بحری کپتان
zh	Chinese 船長

Best Rank

Simple English: #15963 03.2012

Global: #20456 01.2012

Best Rank

Simple English: #1352 03.2019

Global: #2327 07.2002

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