South China Sea

Quality:

South China Sea - Marginal sea in the Pacific Ocean. Article “South China Sea” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “South China Sea”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2542 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 163 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 32068 times in all languages (5290^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #279 in March 2026
• Global: #591 in June 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4351 in July 2016
• Global: #2655 in July 2016

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	Esperanto (eo) Sudĉina maro		78.437
2	English (en) South China Sea		76.3061
3	Korean (ko) 남중국해		71.4158
4	Ukrainian (uk) Південнокитайське море		71.0483
5	Basque (eu) Hego Txinako itsasoa		70.6392
6	Slovenian (sl) Južnokitajsko morje		68.7412
7	Chinese (zh) 南海		68.7076
8	Indonesian (id) Laut Tiongkok Selatan		66.5559
9	Catalan (ca) Mar de la Xina Meridional		59.9557
10	Tamil (ta) தென்சீனக் கடல்		53.3556

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) South China Sea		6 184 010
2	Chinese (zh) 南海		1 808 351
3	Vietnamese (vi) Biển Đông		1 706 680
4	Japanese (ja) 南シナ海		821 103
5	Russian (ru) Южно-Китайское море		703 793
6	French (fr) Mer de Chine méridionale		475 061
7	German (de) Südchinesisches Meer		470 238
8	Spanish (es) Mar de la China Meridional		466 133
9	Indonesian (id) Laut Tiongkok Selatan		403 063
10	Polish (pl) Morze Południowochińskie		283 004

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) South China Sea		12 442
2	Chinese (zh) 南海		4 226
3	Russian (ru) Южно-Китайское море		2 768
4	Japanese (ja) 南シナ海		2 113
5	Vietnamese (vi) Biển Đông		1 992
6	French (fr) Mer de Chine méridionale		1 187
7	German (de) Südchinesisches Meer		1 183
8	Spanish (es) Mar de la China Meridional		1 099
9	Italian (it) Mar Cinese Meridionale		601
10	Polish (pl) Morze Południowochińskie		430

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) South China Sea		522
2	Chinese (zh) 南海		275
3	German (de) Südchinesisches Meer		146
4	French (fr) Mer de Chine méridionale		141
5	Vietnamese (vi) Biển Đông		140
6	Japanese (ja) 南シナ海		90
7	Italian (it) Mar Cinese Meridionale		89
8	Russian (ru) Южно-Китайское море		85
9	Dutch (nl) Zuid-Chinese Zee		84
10	Spanish (es) Mar de la China Meridional		79

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) South China Sea		2
2	Czech (cs) Jihočínské moře		1
3	Basque (eu) Hego Txinako itsasoa		1
4	Indonesian (id) Laut Tiongkok Selatan		1
5	Japanese (ja) 南シナ海		1
6	Dutch (nl) Zuid-Chinese Zee		1
7	Russian (ru) Южно-Китайское море		1
8	Arabic (ar) بحر الصين الجنوبي		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Cənubi Çin dənizi		0
10	Belarusian (be) Паўднёва-Кітайскае мора		0

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

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