Siege of Calais (1940)

Siege of Calais - 1940 battle. This event is the 6924^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Siege of Calais (1940)” in English Wikipedia has 92 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 111 references and 25 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Siege of Calais (1940)” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Siege of Calais (1940)”, its content was written by 99 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 238 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Siege of Calais is on the 6924^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 179 times in English Wikipedia and cited 806 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22849 in October 2015
• Global: #59610 in August 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #25808 in March 2018
• Global: #51350 in March 2018

There are 14 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	English (en) Siege of Calais (1940)		91.9783
2	Polish (pl) Obrona Calais (1940)		88.4992
3	Vietnamese (vi) Cuộc vây hãm Calais (1940)		31.4924
4	Japanese (ja) カレー包囲戦 (1940年)		26.6295
5	Romanian (ro) Asediul orașului Calais (1940)		26.3728
6	German (de) Belagerung von Calais (1940)		25.4353
7	French (fr) Siège de Calais (1940)		18.6378
8	Italian (it) Battaglia di Calais (1940)		11.3129
9	Russian (ru) Осада Кале (1940)		10.9251
10	Chinese (zh) 加來圍城戰 (1940年)		9.8515

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Siege of Calais (1940)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Siege of Calais (1940)		891 477
2	French (fr) Siège de Calais (1940)		67 310
3	Italian (it) Battaglia di Calais (1940)		46 795
4	Japanese (ja) カレー包囲戦 (1940年)		36 703
5	Russian (ru) Осада Кале (1940)		32 088
6	Chinese (zh) 加來圍城戰 (1940年)		23 031
7	German (de) Belagerung von Calais (1940)		16 681
8	Polish (pl) Obrona Calais (1940)		11 494
9	Ukrainian (uk) Облога Кале (1940)		6 404
10	Finnish (fi) Calais’n piiritys		4 278

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Siege of Calais (1940)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Siege of Calais (1940)		3 933
2	Japanese (ja) カレー包囲戦 (1940年)		296
3	French (fr) Siège de Calais (1940)		274
4	Russian (ru) Осада Кале (1940)		269
5	German (de) Belagerung von Calais (1940)		252
6	Italian (it) Battaglia di Calais (1940)		229
7	Chinese (zh) 加來圍城戰 (1940年)		214
8	Polish (pl) Obrona Calais (1940)		104
9	Ukrainian (uk) Облога Кале (1940)		55
10	Tamil (ta) கலே முற்றுகை (1940)		11

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

Language versions of the article "Siege of Calais (1940)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Siege of Calais (1940)		99
2	French (fr) Siège de Calais (1940)		37
3	Italian (it) Battaglia di Calais (1940)		26
4	Chinese (zh) 加來圍城戰 (1940年)		12
5	German (de) Belagerung von Calais (1940)		10
6	Vietnamese (vi) Cuộc vây hãm Calais (1940)		10
7	Finnish (fi) Calais’n piiritys		8
8	Russian (ru) Осада Кале (1940)		8
9	Tamil (ta) கலே முற்றுகை (1940)		7
10	Japanese (ja) カレー包囲戦 (1940年)		5

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

Language versions of the article "Siege of Calais (1940)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Siege of Calais (1940)		2
2	Ukrainian (uk) Облога Кале (1940)		1
3	German (de) Belagerung von Calais (1940)		0
4	Finnish (fi) Calais’n piiritys		0
5	French (fr) Siège de Calais (1940)		0
6	Italian (it) Battaglia di Calais (1940)		0
7	Japanese (ja) カレー包囲戦 (1940年)		0
8	Polish (pl) Obrona Calais (1940)		0
9	Romanian (ro) Asediul orașului Calais (1940)		0
10	Russian (ru) Осада Кале (1940)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Siege of Calais (1940)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Siege of Calais (1940)		179
2	Tamil (ta) கலே முற்றுகை (1940)		121
3	Polish (pl) Obrona Calais (1940)		110
4	French (fr) Siège de Calais (1940)		70
5	Romanian (ro) Asediul orașului Calais (1940)		61
6	Chinese (zh) 加來圍城戰 (1940年)		60
7	German (de) Belagerung von Calais (1940)		44
8	Vietnamese (vi) Cuộc vây hãm Calais (1940)		37
9	Thai (th) การล้อมกาแล		34
10	Ukrainian (uk) Облога Кале (1940)		31

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#	Language	Value
de	German Belagerung von Calais (1940)
en	English Siege of Calais (1940)
fi	Finnish Calais’n piiritys
fr	French Siège de Calais (1940)
it	Italian Battaglia di Calais (1940)
ja	Japanese カレー包囲戦 (1940年)
pl	Polish Obrona Calais (1940)
ro	Romanian Asediul orașului Calais (1940)
ru	Russian Осада Кале (1940)
ta	Tamil கலே முற்றுகை (1940)
th	Thai การล้อมกาแล
uk	Ukrainian Облога Кале (1940)
vi	Vietnamese Cuộc vây hãm Calais (1940)
zh	Chinese 加來圍城戰 (1940年)

Best Rank

English: #25808 03.2018

Global: #51350 03.2018

Best Rank

English: #22849 10.2015

Global: #59610 08.2015

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