Sea of Japan

Quality:

Sea of Japan - marginal sea between Japan, Russia, and Korea. Article “Sea of Japan” in Simple English Wikipedia has 41 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 22 references and 3 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 3990^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8261^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6726^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Sea of Japan”, its content was written by 41 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3990^th place) and edited by 2822 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8261^st place).

The article is cited 155 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 23596 times in all languages (7216^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #88 in May 2021
• Global: #1084 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3980 in July 2024
• Global: #21524 in August 2011

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	Catalan (ca) Mar del Japó		88.5504
2	English (en) Sea of Japan		85.3774
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Japanhavet		61.3098
4	Tamil (ta) யப்பான் கடல்		56.1041
5	Latin (la) Mare Iaponicum		53.5706
6	Portuguese (pt) Mar do Japão		53.2287
7	Malay (ms) Laut Jepun		51.2045
8	Slovenian (sl) Japonsko morje		48.4317
9	Korean (ko) 동해		47.5943
10	Ukrainian (uk) Японське море		43.9606

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sea of Japan		2 787 543
2	Japanese (ja) 日本海		2 171 399
3	Russian (ru) Японское море		1 191 170
4	Spanish (es) Mar del Japón		399 733
5	Chinese (zh) 日本海		342 339
6	Korean (ko) 동해		320 233
7	German (de) Japanisches Meer		298 026
8	French (fr) Mer du Japon		229 404
9	Polish (pl) Morze Japońskie		198 089
10	Portuguese (pt) Mar do Japão		151 614

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) Sea of Japan		10 089
2	Japanese (ja) 日本海		5 643
3	Russian (ru) Японское море		2 770
4	Chinese (zh) 日本海		1 497
5	Spanish (es) Mar del Japón		1 415
6	French (fr) Mer du Japon		837
7	German (de) Japanisches Meer		801
8	Italian (it) Mar del Giappone		711
9	Korean (ko) 동해		662
10	Portuguese (pt) Mar do Japão		336

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sea of Japan		614
2	Japanese (ja) 日本海		221
3	German (de) Japanisches Meer		161
4	French (fr) Mer du Japon		161
5	Korean (ko) 동해		160
6	Chinese (zh) 日本海		152
7	Russian (ru) Японское море		146
8	Italian (it) Mar del Giappone		102
9	Spanish (es) Mar del Japón		81
10	Dutch (nl) Japanse Zee		77

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) Sea of Japan		5
2	Catalan (ca) Mar del Japó		1
3	Basque (eu) Japoniako itsasoa		1
4	Arabic (ar) بحر اليابان		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Yapon dənizi		0
6	Belarusian (be) Японскае мора		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Японско море		0
8	Czech (cs) Japonské moře		0
9	Danish (da) Det Japanske Hav		0
10	German (de) Japanisches Meer		0

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

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