Strait of Malacca

Quality:

Strait of Malacca - strait between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Article “Strait of Malacca” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.49 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Strait of Malacca”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1713 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 15 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9895 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #807 in June 2012
• Global: #1686 in June 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6666 in April 2026
• Global: #2764 in March 2014

There are 53 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	English (en) Strait of Malacca		64.7687
2	Slovenian (sl) Melaški preliv		64.5143
3	Korean (ko) 믈라카 해협		48.9144
4	Japanese (ja) マラッカ海峡		48.5247
5	Catalan (ca) Estret de Malaca		45.1845
6	Tamil (ta) மலாக்கா நீரிணை		41.0356
7	French (fr) Détroit de Malacca		38.4393
8	Chinese (zh) 马六甲海峡		37.9904
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Malakkasundet		36.0528
10	German (de) Straße von Malakka		33.9003

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Strait of Malacca		4 385 551
2	Japanese (ja) マラッカ海峡		782 040
3	French (fr) Détroit de Malacca		632 623
4	Indonesian (id) Selat Malaka		626 884
5	German (de) Straße von Malakka		610 673
6	Chinese (zh) 马六甲海峡		529 250
7	Spanish (es) Estrecho de Malaca		448 992
8	Russian (ru) Малаккский пролив		359 611
9	Polish (pl) Cieśnina Malakka		260 516
10	Thai (th) ช่องแคบมะละกา		200 799

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) Strait of Malacca		21 726
2	Japanese (ja) マラッカ海峡		4 431
3	French (fr) Détroit de Malacca		3 969
4	German (de) Straße von Malakka		3 870
5	Chinese (zh) 马六甲海峡		2 070
6	Spanish (es) Estrecho de Malaca		1 917
7	Russian (ru) Малаккский пролив		1 592
8	Persian (fa) تنگه مالاکا		1 560
9	Polish (pl) Cieśnina Malakka		1 377
10	Indonesian (id) Selat Malaka		1 182

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Strait of Malacca		323
2	German (de) Straße von Malakka		117
3	French (fr) Détroit de Malacca		97
4	Dutch (nl) Straat Malakka		75
5	Russian (ru) Малаккский пролив		73
6	Japanese (ja) マラッカ海峡		66
7	Italian (it) Stretto di Malacca		56
8	Turkish (tr) Malakka Boğazı		56
9	Vietnamese (vi) Eo biển Malacca		49
10	Danish (da) Malaccastrædet		47

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	Turkish (tr) Malakka Boğazı		4
2	Persian (fa) تنگه مالاکا		2
3	Vietnamese (vi) Eo biển Malacca		2
4	Catalan (ca) Estret de Malaca		1
5	Galician (gl) Estreito de Malaca		1
6	Dutch (nl) Straat Malakka		1
7	Slovak (sk) Melacký prieliv		1
8	Urdu (ur) آبنائے ملاکا		1
9	Arabic (ar) مضيق ملقا		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Malakka boğazı		0

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

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