Balkans

Quality:

Balkans - geopolitical and cultural region of Southeast Europe. Article “Balkans” in English Wikipedia has 91.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 233 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.79 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3527^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2745^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1790^th most popular in all topics.

The 1829^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2114^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1434^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8706^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Balkans” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (8706^th place).

Since the creation of article “Balkans”, its content was written by 1398 registered users of English Wikipedia (2745^th place) and edited by 5186 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1829^th place).

The article is cited 8490 times in English Wikipedia (2369^th place) and cited 68368 times in all languages (2398^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #49 in August 2003
• Global: #172 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1721 in March 2022
• Global: #1018 in March 2022

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	Ukrainian (uk) Балканський півострів		100
2	Turkish (tr) Balkanlar		93.4248
3	Slovenian (sl) Balkan		92.1508
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Balkan		91.3136
5	English (en) Balkans		91.0838
6	Japanese (ja) バルカン半島		85.6853
7	Czech (cs) Balkán		85.2793
8	Chinese (zh) 巴尔干半岛		76.0015
9	Bulgarian (bg) Балкански полуостров		74.6735
10	Arabic (ar) البلقان		72.8394

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Balkans		24 334 578
2	Spanish (es) Península balcánica		5 059 378
3	German (de) Balkanhalbinsel		4 048 875
4	Russian (ru) Балканский полуостров		4 026 093
5	French (fr) Balkans		3 649 595
6	Polish (pl) Półwysep Bałkański		2 854 151
7	Italian (it) Penisola balcanica		2 411 187
8	Japanese (ja) バルカン半島		2 388 890
9	Arabic (ar) البلقان		2 195 108
10	Turkish (tr) Balkanlar		1 849 218

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) Balkans		172 950
2	Spanish (es) Península balcánica		18 063
3	French (fr) Balkans		17 224
4	German (de) Balkanhalbinsel		16 802
5	Russian (ru) Балканский полуостров		16 584
6	Japanese (ja) バルカン半島		13 323
7	Chinese (zh) 巴尔干半岛		12 407
8	Portuguese (pt) Bálcãs		9 276
9	Italian (it) Penisola balcanica		9 170
10	Polish (pl) Półwysep Bałkański		8 801

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Balkans		1 398
2	German (de) Balkanhalbinsel		359
3	French (fr) Balkans		306
4	Italian (it) Penisola balcanica		204
5	Russian (ru) Балканский полуостров		192
6	Spanish (es) Península balcánica		153
7	Dutch (nl) Balkan (schiereiland)		148
8	Turkish (tr) Balkanlar		126
9	Croatian (hr) Balkanski poluotok		120
10	Swedish (sv) Balkanhalvön		104

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	English (en) Balkans		5
2	French (fr) Balkans		4
3	Arabic (ar) البلقان		2
4	Japanese (ja) バルカン半島		2
5	Slovenian (sl) Balkan		2
6	Catalan (ca) Balcans		1
7	Czech (cs) Balkán		1
8	Greek (el) Βαλκάνια		1
9	Georgian (ka) ბალკანეთის ნახევარკუნძული		1
10	Russian (ru) Балканский полуостров		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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