United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Quality:

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - international maritime law. Article “United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

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 “United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1462 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 52 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5704 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1925 in April 2026
• Global: #3169 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #29962 in April 2008
• Global: #8298 in March 2015

There are 43 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) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea		73.8377
2	German (de) UN-Seerechtsübereinkommen		57.3796
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Havrettstraktaten		52.1054
4	Greek (el) Σύμβαση των Ηνωμένων Εθνών για το Δίκαιο της Θάλασσας		51.6503
5	Chinese (zh) 聯合國海洋法公約		47.9518
6	Japanese (ja) 海洋法に関する国際連合条約		43.9877
7	Spanish (es) Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Derecho del Mar		40.2824
8	Russian (ru) Конвенция ООН по морскому праву		36.0369
9	Slovak (sk) Dohovor Organizácie Spojených národov o morskom práve		34.248
10	Polish (pl) Konwencja Narodów Zjednoczonych o prawie morza		34.1642

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea		5 292 917
2	Spanish (es) Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Derecho del Mar		1 633 460
3	Indonesian (id) Konvensi Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa tentang Hukum Laut		757 304
4	Russian (ru) Конвенция ООН по морскому праву		640 708
5	Vietnamese (vi) Công ước Liên Hợp Quốc về Luật biển		619 807
6	Chinese (zh) 聯合國海洋法公約		530 086
7	Japanese (ja) 海洋法に関する国際連合条約		522 820
8	French (fr) Convention des Nations unies sur le droit de la mer		485 230
9	Portuguese (pt) Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre o Direito do Mar		445 165
10	German (de) UN-Seerechtsübereinkommen		402 811

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) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea		12 706
2	French (fr) Convention des Nations unies sur le droit de la mer		2 889
3	Persian (fa) کنوانسیون ملل متحد درباره حقوق دریاها		1 776
4	Chinese (zh) 聯合國海洋法公約		1 696
5	German (de) UN-Seerechtsübereinkommen		1 470
6	Spanish (es) Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Derecho del Mar		1 197
7	Japanese (ja) 海洋法に関する国際連合条約		1 053
8	Russian (ru) Конвенция ООН по морскому праву		1 031
9	Italian (it) Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite sul diritto del mare		668
10	Vietnamese (vi) Công ước Liên Hợp Quốc về Luật biển		506

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea		435
2	German (de) UN-Seerechtsübereinkommen		105
3	French (fr) Convention des Nations unies sur le droit de la mer		105
4	Chinese (zh) 聯合國海洋法公約		86
5	Spanish (es) Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Derecho del Mar		70
6	Japanese (ja) 海洋法に関する国際連合条約		66
7	Italian (it) Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite sul diritto del mare		54
8	Vietnamese (vi) Công ước Liên Hợp Quốc về Luật biển		54
9	Dutch (nl) VN-Zeerechtverdrag		53
10	Portuguese (pt) Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre o Direito do Mar		43

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) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea		5
2	Chinese (zh) 聯合國海洋法公約		2
3	Arabic (ar) اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لقانون البحار		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Dəniz hüququ haqqında Konvensiya		1
5	Persian (fa) کنوانسیون ملل متحد درباره حقوق دریاها		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Конвенция на ООН по морско право		0
7	Catalan (ca) Convenció de les Nacions Unides sobre el Dret de la Mar		0
8	Czech (cs) Úmluva Organizace spojených národů o mořském právu		0
9	Danish (da) FN's havretskonvention		0
10	German (de) UN-Seerechtsübereinkommen		0

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

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