The Lion King

Quality:

The Lion King - 1994 animated film directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff. This film is the 40^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 21^st most popular film in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Lion King” in Simple English Wikipedia has 87.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 45 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 3158^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 447^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 21^st most popular in films in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1491^st most popular in all topics.

The 923^rd most popular in AI.

The 40^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1136^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 343^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4458^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4022^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “The Lion King” was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (343^rd place) and written by 32 authors in all languages (4022^nd place).

Since the creation of article “The Lion King”, its content was written by 122 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (447^th place) and edited by 6608 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (923^rd place).

The Lion King is on the 21^st place in local ranking of films in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 40^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 238 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 15316 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): #158 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, 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	Spanish (es) El rey león		92.8571
2	English (en) The Lion King		88.2934
3	Hebrew (he) מלך האריות		88.2198
4	Simple English (simple) The Lion King		87.0508
5	Greek (el) Ο Βασιλιάς των Λιονταριών		86.6667
6	Polish (pl) Król lew (film 1994)		86.6415
7	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão		86.3636
8	Russian (ru) Король Лев		83.0769
9	Chinese (zh) 狮子王		76.8788
10	German (de) Der König der Löwen (1994)		76.7127

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Lion King		39 583 922
2	Spanish (es) El rey león		6 080 798
3	French (fr) Le Roi lion		5 189 393
4	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング		4 897 225
5	Russian (ru) Король Лев		4 265 725
6	Italian (it) Il re leone		3 867 847
7	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão		3 066 990
8	Chinese (zh) 狮子王		1 633 812
9	German (de) Der König der Löwen (1994)		1 586 119
10	Swedish (sv) Lejonkungen		1 304 133

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		93 661
2	French (fr) Le Roi lion		9 642
3	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング		8 743
4	Russian (ru) Король Лев		8 222
5	German (de) Der König der Löwen (1994)		7 573
6	Italian (it) Il re leone		6 783
7	Spanish (es) El rey león		5 681
8	Chinese (zh) 狮子王		4 212
9	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão		2 788
10	Polish (pl) Król lew (film 1994)		2 473

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		1 882
2	German (de) Der König der Löwen (1994)		425
3	French (fr) Le Roi lion		413
4	Italian (it) Il re leone		339
5	Spanish (es) El rey león		327
6	Russian (ru) Король Лев		292
7	Hebrew (he) מלך האריות		244
8	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング		236
9	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão		215
10	Dutch (nl) The Lion King (1994)		198

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) The Lion King		4
2	Hebrew (he) מלך האריות		4
3	Arabic (ar) الأسد الملك		3
4	Simple English (simple) The Lion King		3
5	Dutch (nl) The Lion King (1994)		2
6	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão		2
7	Russian (ru) Король Лев		2
8	Urdu (ur) دی لائن کنگ (فلم)		2
9	Catalan (ca) El rei lleó (pel·lícula de 1994)		1
10	Greek (el) Ο Βασιλιάς των Λιονταριών		1

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information