Alien (law)

Foreigner - person not having citizenship in a country. Article “Alien (law)” in English Wikipedia has 54.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 40 references and 12 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.

Since the creation of article “Alien (law)”, its content was written by 341 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1190 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 897 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8382 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8015 in April 2010
• Global: #4298 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #48607 in November 2008
• Global: #36247 in November 2010

There are 34 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) Alien (law)		54.4513
2	Czech (cs) Cizinec		52.5447
3	German (de) Ausländer		50.3962
4	Romanian (ro) Străin		44.2618
5	Swedish (sv) Utländsk bakgrund		39.4847
6	Estonian (et) Mitteresident		31.3517
7	Japanese (ja) 外国人		29.6007
8	Arabic (ar) أجنبي (قانون)		27.7059
9	Polish (pl) Cudzoziemiec		26.4634
10	Korean (ko) 외국인		26.3876

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Alien (law)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alien (law)		1 997 311
2	German (de) Ausländer		923 337
3	Spanish (es) Extranjero		739 087
4	Japanese (ja) 外国人		520 612
5	Polish (pl) Cudzoziemiec		238 101
6	Russian (ru) Иностранцы		216 103
7	French (fr) Étranger		201 740
8	Swedish (sv) Utländsk bakgrund		121 284
9	Portuguese (pt) Estrangeiro		119 130
10	Dutch (nl) Buitenlander		108 452

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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 "Alien (law)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alien (law)		12 071
2	German (de) Ausländer		1 203
3	Russian (ru) Иностранцы		826
4	Japanese (ja) 外国人		774
5	Spanish (es) Extranjero		710
6	Chinese (zh) 外國人		589
7	French (fr) Étranger		343
8	Arabic (ar) أجنبي (قانون)		329
9	Portuguese (pt) Estrangeiro		329
10	Dutch (nl) Buitenlander		252

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alien (law)		341
2	German (de) Ausländer		201
3	Japanese (ja) 外国人		85
4	French (fr) Étranger		55
5	Spanish (es) Extranjero		50
6	Dutch (nl) Buitenlander		48
7	Chinese (zh) 外國人		43
8	Polish (pl) Cudzoziemiec		41
9	Russian (ru) Иностранцы		40
10	Czech (cs) Cizinec		32

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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 "Alien (law)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Esperanto (eo) Eksterlandano		1
2	Russian (ru) Иностранцы		1
3	Arabic (ar) أجنبي (قانون)		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Qeyri-rezidentlər		0
5	Czech (cs) Cizinec		0
6	Danish (da) Udlænding		0
7	German (de) Ausländer		0
8	Greek (el) Αλλοδαπός		0
9	English (en) Alien (law)		0
10	Spanish (es) Extranjero		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 "Alien (law)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Ausländer		2 582
2	Japanese (ja) 外国人		1 020
3	English (en) Alien (law)		897
4	Dutch (nl) Buitenlander		687
5	Russian (ru) Иностранцы		518
6	Spanish (es) Extranjero		344
7	Ukrainian (uk) Іноземець		333
8	Chinese (zh) 外國人		330
9	Swedish (sv) Utländsk bakgrund		273
10	Portuguese (pt) Estrangeiro		195

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أجنبي (قانون)
az	Azerbaijani Qeyri-rezidentlər
cs	Czech Cizinec
da	Danish Udlænding
de	German Ausländer
el	Greek Αλλοδαπός
en	English Alien (law)
eo	Esperanto Eksterlandano
es	Spanish Extranjero
et	Estonian Mitteresident
eu	Basque Atzerritar
fa	Persian بیگانه (قانون)
fr	French Étranger
hr	Croatian Stranac
hy	Armenian Օտարերկրյա քաղաքացի
id	Indonesian Orang asing (konsep hukum)
ja	Japanese 外国人
ka	Georgian უცხოელები
kk	Kazakh Шет ел азаматтары
ko	Korean 외국인
la	Latin Peregrinus
lt	Lithuanian Užsienietis
nl	Dutch Buitenlander
pl	Polish Cudzoziemiec
pt	Portuguese Estrangeiro
ro	Romanian Străin
ru	Russian Иностранцы
sh	Serbo-Croatian Stranac
sv	Swedish Utländsk bakgrund
th	Thai คนต่างด้าว
tr	Turkish Yabancı (hukuk)
uk	Ukrainian Іноземець
vi	Vietnamese Người nước ngoài
zh	Chinese 外國人

Best Rank

English: #48607 11.2008

Global: #36247 11.2010

Best Rank

English: #8015 04.2010

Global: #4298 01.2004

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