The Lion King

Quality:

The Lion King - 1994 animated film directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff. This film is the 38^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 20^th most popular film in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Lion King” in Simple English Wikipedia has 71.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 43 references and 21 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish 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 3057^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 516^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 20^th most popular in films in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1489^th most popular in all topics.

The 928^th most popular in AI.

The 38^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3564^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 850^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3857^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2728^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “The Lion King” was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (850^th place) and written by 39 authors in all languages (2728^th place).

Since the creation of article “The Lion King”, its content was written by 112 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (516^th place) and edited by 6513 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (928^th place).

The Lion King is on the 20^th place in local ranking of films in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 38^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 231 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14870 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #30 in July 2008
• Global: #43 in November 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #164 in September 2024
• Global: #30 in July 2019

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, 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	Spanish (es) El rey león		92.8571
2	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão		90.9091
3	Hebrew (he) מלך האריות		88.5013
4	English (en) The Lion King		88.3501
5	Greek (el) Ο Βασιλιάς των Λιονταριών		86.6667
6	Russian (ru) Король Лев		83.0769
7	Polish (pl) Król lew (film 1994)		82.3086
8	German (de) Der König der Löwen (1994)		77.6828
9	Korean (ko) 라이온 킹		76.0949
10	Ukrainian (uk) Король Лев		76.0242

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Lion King		38 310 362
2	Spanish (es) El rey león		5 989 313
3	French (fr) Le Roi lion		5 032 349
4	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング		4 752 097
5	Russian (ru) Король Лев		3 888 707
6	Italian (it) Il re leone		3 749 347
7	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão		2 704 157
8	Chinese (zh) 狮子王		1 573 072
9	German (de) Der König der Löwen (1994)		1 439 879
10	Swedish (sv) Lejonkungen		1 270 997

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) The Lion King		108 339
2	Russian (ru) Король Лев		10 963
3	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング		10 467
4	French (fr) Le Roi lion		10 466
5	German (de) Der König der Löwen (1994)		9 564
6	Spanish (es) El rey león		9 210
7	Italian (it) Il re leone		9 143
8	Chinese (zh) 狮子王		6 187
9	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão		3 198
10	Arabic (ar) الأسد الملك		3 189

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Lion King		1 831
2	German (de) Der König der Löwen (1994)		425
3	French (fr) Le Roi lion		404
4	Italian (it) Il re leone		336
5	Spanish (es) El rey león		319
6	Russian (ru) Король Лев		283
7	Hebrew (he) מלך האריות		238
8	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング		230
9	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão		202
10	Dutch (nl) The Lion King (1994)		192

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	Spanish (es) El rey león		7
2	English (en) The Lion King		5
3	Simple English (simple) The Lion King		3
4	Hungarian (hu) Az oroszlánkirály (film, 1994)		2
5	Dutch (nl) The Lion King (1994)		2
6	Polish (pl) Król lew (film 1994)		2
7	Russian (ru) Король Лев		2
8	Swedish (sv) Lejonkungen		2
9	Ukrainian (uk) Король Лев		2
10	Chinese (zh) 狮子王		2

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information