Shaolin Monastery

Shaolin Monastery - Chan Buddhist temple in Dengfeng county, Henan, China. This building is the 124^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 557^th most popular building in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Shaolin Monastery” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.02 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Shaolin Monastery” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (967^th place) and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Shaolin Monastery”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1991 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shaolin Monastery is on the 557^th place in local ranking of buildings in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 124^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7485 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #702 in June 2009
• Global: #4204 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #10269 in June 2009
• Global: #10319 in July 2025

There are 47 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	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		85.7717
2	Thai (th) วัดเส้าหลิน		80.3407
3	Slovenian (sl) Samostan Šaolin		78.1846
4	Polish (pl) Szaolin		75.1588
5	Hebrew (he) מנזר שאולין		58.28
6	English (en) Shaolin Monastery		48.2864
7	German (de) Shaolin		45.249
8	Catalan (ca) Monestir Shaolin		44.6676
9	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		43.9538
10	Slovak (sk) Šao-lin		39.22

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Shaolin Monastery" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shaolin Monastery		6 549 067
2	Spanish (es) Shaolin		1 548 175
3	Russian (ru) Шаолинь		1 483 960
4	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		1 194 410
5	German (de) Shaolin		1 157 461
6	Japanese (ja) 嵩山少林寺		675 448
7	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		625 046
8	Polish (pl) Szaolin		616 117
9	Vietnamese (vi) Chùa Thiếu Lâm		449 180
10	Portuguese (pt) Shaolin		447 403

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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 "Shaolin Monastery" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shaolin Monastery		23 031
2	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		4 326
3	Russian (ru) Шаолинь		2 847
4	German (de) Shaolin		2 523
5	Japanese (ja) 嵩山少林寺		1 918
6	Spanish (es) Shaolin		1 618
7	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		1 470
8	Polish (pl) Szaolin		1 221
9	Persian (fa) معبد شائولین		992
10	Italian (it) Shàolín-sì		785

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shaolin Monastery		528
2	German (de) Shaolin		190
3	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		139
4	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		120
5	Russian (ru) Шаолинь		117
6	Spanish (es) Shaolin		87
7	Italian (it) Shàolín-sì		83
8	Dutch (nl) Shaolinklooster		77
9	Polish (pl) Szaolin		75
10	Japanese (ja) 嵩山少林寺		49

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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 "Shaolin Monastery" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shaolin Monastery		2
2	Simple English (simple) Shaolin Monastery		2
3	Catalan (ca) Monestir Shaolin		1
4	Italian (it) Shàolín-sì		1
5	Arabic (ar) معبد شاولين		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Şaolin		0
7	Belarusian (be) Шаалінь		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Шаолин		0
9	Czech (cs) Klášter Šaolin		0
10	Danish (da) Shaolin Kloster		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 "Shaolin Monastery" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shaolin Monastery		2 982
2	Chinese (zh) 少林寺		1 201
3	Japanese (ja) 嵩山少林寺		333
4	Persian (fa) معبد شائولین		261
5	Tamil (ta) சவொலின் மடாலயம்		238
6	Russian (ru) Шаолинь		220
7	Arabic (ar) معبد شاولين		211
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chùa Thiếu Lâm		209
9	French (fr) Monastère Shaolin		199
10	Italian (it) Shàolín-sì		136

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic معبد شاولين
az	Azerbaijani Şaolin
be	Belarusian Шаалінь
bg	Bulgarian Шаолин
ca	Catalan Monestir Shaolin
cs	Czech Klášter Šaolin
da	Danish Shaolin Kloster
de	German Shaolin
el	Greek Σαολίν
en	English Shaolin Monastery
eo	Esperanto Ŝaolina templo
es	Spanish Shaolin
eu	Basque Shaolin
fa	Persian معبد شائولین
fi	Finnish Shaolin
fr	French Monastère Shaolin
he	Hebrew מנזר שאולין
hi	Hindi शाओलिन मन्दिर
hr	Croatian Šaolinski hram
hy	Armenian Շաոլին
id	Indonesian Vihara Shaolin
it	Italian Shàolín-sì
ja	Japanese 嵩山少林寺
ko	Korean 소림사
la	Latin Shaolin templum
lt	Lithuanian Šaolino vienuolynas
nl	Dutch Shaolinklooster
no	Norwegian Shaolintempelet
pl	Polish Szaolin
pt	Portuguese Shaolin
ro	Romanian Templul Shaolin
ru	Russian Шаолинь
sh	Serbo-Croatian Shaolinski hram
simple	Simple English Shaolin Monastery
sk	Slovak Šao-lin
sl	Slovenian Samostan Šaolin
sr	Serbian Манастир Шаолин
sv	Swedish Shaolintemplet
ta	Tamil சவொலின் மடாலயம்
th	Thai วัดเส้าหลิน
tr	Turkish Şaolin Manastırı
uk	Ukrainian Шаолінь
ur	Urdu شاؤلین مندر
uz	Uzbek Shaolin ibodatxonasi
vi	Vietnamese Chùa Thiếu Lâm
zh	Chinese 少林寺
zhminnan	Min Nan Siàu-lîm-sī

Best Rank

Simple English: #10269 06.2009

Global: #10319 07.2025

Best Rank

Simple English: #702 06.2009

Global: #4204 03.2012

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