Polar bear

Quality:

Ursus maritimus - species of bear native largely within the Arctic Circle. This taxon is the 27^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 52^nd most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Polar bear” in Simple English Wikipedia has 62.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 11 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1297^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 313^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 52^nd most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1812^th most popular in all topics.

The 904^th most popular in AI.

The 27^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 589^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1619^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4401^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8196^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Polar bear” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1619^th place) and written by 23 authors in all languages (8196^th place).

Since the creation of article “Polar bear”, its content was written by 138 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (313^th place) and edited by 6602 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (904^th place).

Ursus maritimus is on the 52^nd place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 27^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 78 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11814 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in February 2014
• Global: #62 in November 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #410 in September 2011
• Global: #759 in January 2008

There are 54 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) Polar bear		100
2	Czech (cs) Medvěd lední		100
3	Arabic (ar) دب قطبي		100
4	Slovak (sk) Medveď biely		100
5	Portuguese (pt) Urso-polar		99.4692
6	Catalan (ca) Os polar		97.6471
7	Romanian (ro) Urs polar		97.1429
8	Chinese (zh) 北極熊		96.1364
9	Hindi (hi) ध्रुवीय भालू		95
10	Hebrew (he) דוב קוטב		90.4496

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Polar bear		25 133 223
2	Spanish (es) Ursus maritimus		5 884 285
3	German (de) Eisbär		5 613 105
4	Russian (ru) Белый медведь		4 551 430
5	French (fr) Ours blanc		3 449 331
6	Japanese (ja) ホッキョクグマ		3 030 737
7	Portuguese (pt) Urso-polar		2 298 193
8	Polish (pl) Niedźwiedź polarny		1 887 987
9	Chinese (zh) 北極熊		1 740 266
10	Italian (it) Ursus maritimus		1 446 423

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) Polar bear		77 329
2	Spanish (es) Ursus maritimus		12 100
3	Chinese (zh) 北極熊		11 907
4	Russian (ru) Белый медведь		11 758
5	Japanese (ja) ホッキョクグマ		10 958
6	German (de) Eisbär		10 691
7	French (fr) Ours blanc		5 637
8	Portuguese (pt) Urso-polar		5 252
9	Korean (ko) 북극곰		4 890
10	Italian (it) Ursus maritimus		4 169

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Polar bear		1 589
2	German (de) Eisbär		501
3	French (fr) Ours blanc		438
4	Spanish (es) Ursus maritimus		279
5	Russian (ru) Белый медведь		241
6	Dutch (nl) IJsbeer		214
7	Italian (it) Ursus maritimus		210
8	Japanese (ja) ホッキョクグマ		207
9	Norwegian (no) Isbjørn		182
10	Hebrew (he) דוב קוטב		179

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	Russian (ru) Белый медведь		3
2	Czech (cs) Medvěd lední		2
3	Hindi (hi) ध्रुवीय भालू		2
4	Simple English (simple) Polar bear		2
5	Slovenian (sl) Severni medved		2
6	Swedish (sv) Isbjörn		2
7	Catalan (ca) Os polar		1
8	English (en) Polar bear		1
9	Spanish (es) Ursus maritimus		1
10	Persian (fa) خرس قطبی		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 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