Sea of Japan

Quality:

Sea of Japan - marginal sea between Japan, Russia, and Korea. Article “Sea of Japan” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 3711^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8042^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3280^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 (3711^th place) and edited by 2816 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8042^nd place).

The article is cited 155 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 22996 times in all languages (7176^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #87 in May 2021
• Global: #1084 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3280 in June 2025
• Global: #21528 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, 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) Mar del Japó		88.7273
2	English (en) Sea of Japan		83.5517
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Japanhavet		61.3113
4	Tamil (ta) யப்பான் கடல்		56.6099
5	Portuguese (pt) Mar do Japão		53.4774
6	Latin (la) Mare Iaponicum		53.2121
7	Malay (ms) Laut Jepun		52.0256
8	Korean (ko) 동해		50.2306
9	Slovenian (sl) Japonsko morje		48.5977
10	Ukrainian (uk) Японське море		46.3487

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sea of Japan		2 633 157
2	Japanese (ja) 日本海		2 071 598
3	Russian (ru) Японское море		1 056 867
4	Spanish (es) Mar del Japón		380 789
5	Chinese (zh) 日本海		321 284
6	Korean (ko) 동해		309 941
7	German (de) Japanisches Meer		286 255
8	French (fr) Mer du Japon		216 519
9	Polish (pl) Morze Japońskie		192 178
10	Portuguese (pt) Mar do Japão		146 005

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		13 307
2	Japanese (ja) 日本海		10 760
3	Russian (ru) Японское море		4 636
4	Chinese (zh) 日本海		1 936
5	Simple English (simple) Sea of Japan		1 466
6	Spanish (es) Mar del Japón		1 362
7	French (fr) Mer du Japon		1 074
8	German (de) Japanisches Meer		897
9	Korean (ko) 동해		865
10	Italian (it) Mar del Giappone		727

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		601
2	Japanese (ja) 日本海		219
3	French (fr) Mer du Japon		160
4	Korean (ko) 동해		159
5	German (de) Japanisches Meer		158
6	Chinese (zh) 日本海		148
7	Russian (ru) Японское море		142
8	Italian (it) Mar del Giappone		99
9	Spanish (es) Mar del Japón		79
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		1
2	Spanish (es) Mar del Japón		1
3	Russian (ru) Японское море		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	Catalan (ca) Mar del Japó		0
9	Czech (cs) Japonské moře		0
10	Danish (da) Det Japanske Hav		0

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

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