Plastic bag

Plastic bag - type of container made of thin, flexible, plastic film, nonwoven fabric, or plastic textile. Article “Plastic bag” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Plastic bag”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1449 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2237 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #494 in March 2022
• Global: #9146 in January 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #26914 in May 2021
• Global: #24668 in May 2011

There are 33 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	German (de) Plastiktüte		96.7362
2	English (en) Plastic bag		66.4043
3	Greek (el) Πλαστική σακούλα		59.1143
4	French (fr) Sac plastique		53.5161
5	Vietnamese (vi) Túi nhựa		50.9514
6	Ukrainian (uk) Пластиковий пакет		49.8525
7	Finnish (fi) Muovikassi		47.9284
8	Turkish (tr) Plastik poşet		45.5706
9	Catalan (ca) Bossa de plàstic		42.8288
10	Tamil (ta) நெகிழிப் பை		42.503

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Plastic bag" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Plastic bag		2 204 717
2	Spanish (es) Bolsa de plástico		1 409 105
3	Russian (ru) Полиэтиленовый пакет		449 855
4	German (de) Plastiktüte		431 987
5	French (fr) Sac plastique		397 032
6	Portuguese (pt) Saco de plástico		382 109
7	Chinese (zh) 塑料袋		243 054
8	Japanese (ja) ポリ袋		212 048
9	Tamil (ta) நெகிழிப் பை		148 382
10	Italian (it) Sacchetto di plastica		134 232

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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 "Plastic bag" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Plastic bag		3 777
2	Russian (ru) Полиэтиленовый пакет		757
3	Spanish (es) Bolsa de plástico		697
4	Chinese (zh) 塑料袋		534
5	French (fr) Sac plastique		504
6	German (de) Plastiktüte		387
7	Vietnamese (vi) Túi nhựa		357
8	Tamil (ta) நெகிழிப் பை		266
9	Indonesian (id) Kantong plastik		243
10	Japanese (ja) ポリ袋		237

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Plastic bag		426
2	German (de) Plastiktüte		261
3	French (fr) Sac plastique		141
4	Spanish (es) Bolsa de plástico		104
5	Portuguese (pt) Saco de plástico		88
6	Russian (ru) Полиэтиленовый пакет		78
7	Finnish (fi) Muovikassi		49
8	Chinese (zh) 塑料袋		45
9	Italian (it) Sacchetto di plastica		32
10	Korean (ko) 비닐봉투		25

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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 "Plastic bag" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Sac plastique		2
2	English (en) Plastic bag		1
3	Arabic (ar) كيس نايلون		0
4	Catalan (ca) Bossa de plàstic		0
5	Czech (cs) Igelitová taška		0
6	Danish (da) Plastindkøbspose		0
7	German (de) Plastiktüte		0
8	Greek (el) Πλαστική σακούλα		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Plasta saketo		0
10	Spanish (es) Bolsa de plástico		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 "Plastic bag" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Plastic bag		608
2	Arabic (ar) كيس نايلون		222
3	French (fr) Sac plastique		209
4	Russian (ru) Полиэтиленовый пакет		205
5	Chinese (zh) 塑料袋		159
6	Spanish (es) Bolsa de plástico		117
7	German (de) Plastiktüte		114
8	Italian (it) Sacchetto di plastica		73
9	Japanese (ja) ポリ袋		72
10	Korean (ko) 비닐봉투		55

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic كيس نايلون
ca	Catalan Bossa de plàstic
cs	Czech Igelitová taška
da	Danish Plastindkøbspose
de	German Plastiktüte
el	Greek Πλαστική σακούλα
en	English Plastic bag
eo	Esperanto Plasta saketo
es	Spanish Bolsa de plástico
et	Estonian Kilekott
eu	Basque Plastikozko poltsa
fa	Persian کیسه پلاستیکی
fi	Finnish Muovikassi
fr	French Sac plastique
hr	Croatian Plastična vrećica
id	Indonesian Kantong plastik
it	Italian Sacchetto di plastica
ja	Japanese ポリ袋
ko	Korean 비닐봉투
la	Latin Sacculus plasticus
lt	Lithuanian Plastikinis maišelis
ms	Malay Beg plastik
pl	Polish Torba foliowa
pt	Portuguese Saco de plástico
ru	Russian Полиэтиленовый пакет
simple	Simple English Plastic bag
sl	Slovenian Plastična vrečka
sr	Serbian Пластична кеса
ta	Tamil நெகிழிப் பை
tr	Turkish Plastik poşet
uk	Ukrainian Пластиковий пакет
vi	Vietnamese Túi nhựa
zh	Chinese 塑料袋

Best Rank

Simple English: #26914 05.2021

Global: #24668 05.2011

Best Rank

Simple English: #494 03.2022

Global: #9146 01.2019

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