Balad, Somalia

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Balad, Somalia

Quality:

Balad - town in Middle Shabelle. Article “Balad, Somalia” in English Wikipedia has 17.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.93 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Balad, Somalia” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Balad, Somalia”, its content was written by 59 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 75 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 44 times in English Wikipedia and cited 82 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #23175 in August 2014
  • Global: #64975 in August 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #347429 in February 2016
  • Global: #581376 in February 2016

There are 6 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Arabic (ar)
بلعد
23.6509
2English (en)
Balad, Somalia
17.5766
3Persian (fa)
بلد (سومالی)
12.2
4Spanish (es)
Bal'ad
9.8904
5Italian (it)
Balad (Somalia)
9.8685
6Norwegian (no)
Balad
2.0308
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Balad, Somalia" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Balad, Somalia
87 545
2Italian (it)
Balad (Somalia)
11 148
3Spanish (es)
Bal'ad
841
4Arabic (ar)
بلعد
373
5Persian (fa)
بلد (سومالی)
170
6Norwegian (no)
Balad
84
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Balad, Somalia" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Balad, Somalia
512
2Italian (it)
Balad (Somalia)
137
3Arabic (ar)
بلعد
18
4Spanish (es)
Bal'ad
8
5Persian (fa)
بلد (سومالی)
3
6Norwegian (no)
Balad
3
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Balad, Somalia" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Balad, Somalia
59
2Italian (it)
Balad (Somalia)
10
3Arabic (ar)
بلعد
2
4Spanish (es)
Bal'ad
2
5Persian (fa)
بلد (سومالی)
1
6Norwegian (no)
Balad
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Balad, Somalia" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Balad, Somalia
1
2Arabic (ar)
بلعد
0
3Spanish (es)
Bal'ad
0
4Persian (fa)
بلد (سومالی)
0
5Italian (it)
Balad (Somalia)
0
6Norwegian (no)
Balad
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Balad, Somalia" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Balad, Somalia
44
2Italian (it)
Balad (Somalia)
22
3Arabic (ar)
بلعد
6
4Spanish (es)
Bal'ad
5
5Norwegian (no)
Balad
4
6Persian (fa)
بلد (سومالی)
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
بلعد
enEnglish
Balad, Somalia
esSpanish
Bal'ad
faPersian
بلد (سومالی)
itItalian
Balad (Somalia)
noNorwegian
Balad

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#347429
02.2016
Global:
#581376
02.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#23175
08.2014
Global:
#64975
08.2014

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Balad from Wikipedia articles about 2025 Shabelle offensive, Vincenzo Li Causi, Somali Airlines Flight 40, Battle of Balad and Omar Nabhan. Whereas reading the article about Balad people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Al-Shabaab, Middle Shebelle, Somali Civil War, Menelik IIs conquests and Somalia.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

es: Bal'ad
no: Balad

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