281 BC

281 BC - year. Article “281 BC” in English Wikipedia has 18.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “281 BC”, its content was written by 26 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 550 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 30 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1963 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14551 in March 2003
• Global: #2603 in May 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #561831 in January 2008
• Global: #316524 in May 2008

There are 46 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	Catalan (ca) 281 aC		30.7213
2	Bulgarian (bg) 281 г. пр.н.е.		30.3592
3	Finnish (fi) 281 eaa.		24.3579
4	Arabic (ar) 281 ق م		24.241
5	Lithuanian (lt) 281 m. pr. m. e.		22.3987
6	French (fr) 281 av. J.-C.		22.1318
7	English (en) 281 BC		18.4486
8	Swedish (sv) 281 f.Kr.		7.8691
9	Japanese (ja) 紀元前281年		7.4219
10	German (de) 281 v. Chr.		7.2629

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

The most popular language versions of the article "281 BC" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 281 BC		51 728
2	Polish (pl) 281 p.n.e.		45 891
3	Russian (ru) 281 год до н. э.		16 600
4	Spanish (es) 281 a. C.		15 830
5	Italian (it) 281 a.C.		15 523
6	French (fr) 281 av. J.-C.		15 422
7	German (de) 281 v. Chr.		13 785
8	Chinese (zh) 前281年		9 606
9	Japanese (ja) 紀元前281年		7 611
10	Dutch (nl) 281 v.Chr.		6 732

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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 "281 BC" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 281 BC		171
2	Chinese (zh) 前281年		67
3	Russian (ru) 281 год до н. э.		55
4	Danish (da) 281 f.Kr.		54
5	Finnish (fi) 281 eaa.		47
6	Slovak (sk) 281 pred Kr.		40
7	Hungarian (hu) I. e. 281		33
8	Japanese (ja) 紀元前281年		32
9	French (fr) 281 av. J.-C.		31
10	Lithuanian (lt) 281 m. pr. m. e.		29

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

Language versions of the article "281 BC" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) 281 av. J.-C.		53
2	German (de) 281 v. Chr.		50
3	Italian (it) 281 a.C.		44
4	Dutch (nl) 281 v.Chr.		41
5	Norwegian (no) 281 f.Kr.		35
6	Danish (da) 281 f.Kr.		29
7	Russian (ru) 281 год до н. э.		29
8	Hungarian (hu) I. e. 281		27
9	English (en) 281 BC		26
10	Latin (la) 281 a.C.n.		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 "281 BC" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) 281 a. C.		1
2	Arabic (ar) 281 ق م		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) E.ə. 281		0
4	Belarusian (be) 281 да н.э.		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) 281 г. пр.н.е.		0
6	Catalan (ca) 281 aC		0
7	Czech (cs) 281 př. n. l.		0
8	Danish (da) 281 f.Kr.		0
9	German (de) 281 v. Chr.		0
10	Greek (el) 281 π.Χ.		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 "281 BC" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Russian (ru) 281 год до н. э.		209
2	Japanese (ja) 紀元前281年		150
3	Finnish (fi) 281 eaa.		130
4	Bulgarian (bg) 281 г. пр.н.е.		116
5	Persian (fa) ۲۸۱ (پیش از میلاد)		111
6	French (fr) 281 av. J.-C.		88
7	Italian (it) 281 a.C.		88
8	Czech (cs) 281 př. n. l.		77
9	Polish (pl) 281 p.n.e.		66
10	Ukrainian (uk) 281 до н. е.		63

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic 281 ق م
az	Azerbaijani E.ə. 281
be	Belarusian 281 да н.э.
bg	Bulgarian 281 г. пр.н.е.
ca	Catalan 281 aC
cs	Czech 281 př. n. l.
da	Danish 281 f.Kr.
de	German 281 v. Chr.
el	Greek 281 π.Χ.
en	English 281 BC
eo	Esperanto -281
es	Spanish 281 a. C.
et	Estonian 281 eKr
eu	Basque K.a. 281
fa	Persian ۲۸۱ (پیش از میلاد)
fi	Finnish 281 eaa.
fr	French 281 av. J.-C.
gl	Galician -281
hr	Croatian 281. pr. Kr.
hu	Hungarian I. e. 281
hy	Armenian Մ.թ.ա. 281
id	Indonesian 281 SM
it	Italian 281 a.C.
ja	Japanese 紀元前281年
ka	Georgian ძვ. წ. 281
kk	Kazakh Б. з. д. 281 жыл
la	Latin 281 a.C.n.
lt	Lithuanian 281 m. pr. m. e.
ms	Malay 281 SM
nl	Dutch 281 v.Chr.
no	Norwegian 281 f.Kr.
pl	Polish 281 p.n.e.
pt	Portuguese 281 a.C.
ro	Romanian 281 î.Hr.
ru	Russian 281 год до н. э.
sh	Serbo-Croatian 281. pr. n. e.
sk	Slovak 281 pred Kr.
sl	Slovenian 281 pr. n. št.
sr	Serbian 281. п. н. е.
sv	Swedish 281 f.Kr.
th	Thai พ.ศ. 263
tr	Turkish MÖ 281
uk	Ukrainian 281 до н. е.
uz	Uzbek Mil. av. 281
vi	Vietnamese 281 TCN
zh	Chinese 前281年

Best Rank

English: #561831 01.2008

Global: #316524 05.2008

Best Rank

English: #14551 03.2003

Global: #2603 05.2008

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