Ministry of defence

Defence ministry - type of ministry responsible for the armed forces and related agencies. Article “Ministry of defence” in English Wikipedia has 13.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.73 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Ministry of defence” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ministry of defence”, its content was written by 364 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 911 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2059 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5454 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2045 in October 2003
• Global: #6647 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22214 in October 2013
• Global: #33687 in March 2011

There are 18 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	German (de) Verteidigungsministerium		68.5714
2	Swedish (sv) Försvarsministerium		25.7512
3	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ Quốc phòng		19.0818
4	Russian (ru) Министерство обороны		14.3923
5	Arabic (ar) وزارة الدفاع		14.0349
6	English (en) Ministry of defence		13.8483
7	Bulgarian (bg) Министерство на отбраната		11.7533
8	Persian (fa) وزارت دفاع		9.8593
9	French (fr) Ministère de la Défense		6.8066
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Forsvarsdepartement		5.2088

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ministry of defence" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ministry of defence		2 338 101
2	German (de) Verteidigungsministerium		1 061 543
3	Japanese (ja) 国防省		216 386
4	French (fr) Ministère de la Défense		198 616
5	Russian (ru) Министерство обороны		138 202
6	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ Quốc phòng		78 354
7	Persian (fa) وزارت دفاع		76 538
8	Arabic (ar) وزارة الدفاع		60 844
9	Dutch (nl) Ministerie van Defensie		53 839
10	Korean (ko) 국방부		46 366

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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 "Ministry of defence" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ministry of defence		7 863
2	German (de) Verteidigungsministerium		3 507
3	Japanese (ja) 国防省		881
4	Persian (fa) وزارت دفاع		753
5	French (fr) Ministère de la Défense		661
6	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ Quốc phòng		413
7	Russian (ru) Министерство обороны		402
8	Arabic (ar) وزارة الدفاع		223
9	Hebrew (he) משרד ההגנה		209
10	Simple English (simple) Ministry of Defence		147

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ministry of defence		364
2	German (de) Verteidigungsministerium		193
3	French (fr) Ministère de la Défense		85
4	Dutch (nl) Ministerie van Defensie		47
5	Japanese (ja) 国防省		46
6	Hebrew (he) משרד ההגנה		39
7	Russian (ru) Министерство обороны		32
8	Arabic (ar) وزارة الدفاع		20
9	Korean (ko) 국방부		20
10	Swedish (sv) Försvarsministerium		13

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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 "Ministry of defence" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ministry of defence		1
2	Persian (fa) وزارت دفاع		1
3	Arabic (ar) وزارة الدفاع		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Министерство на отбраната		0
5	German (de) Verteidigungsministerium		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Ministerio pri defendo		0
7	Estonian (et) Kaitseministeerium (üldmõiste)		0
8	French (fr) Ministère de la Défense		0
9	Hebrew (he) משרד ההגנה		0
10	Japanese (ja) 国防省		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 "Ministry of defence" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ministry of defence		2 059
2	German (de) Verteidigungsministerium		1 315
3	French (fr) Ministère de la Défense		408
4	Dutch (nl) Ministerie van Defensie		278
5	Persian (fa) وزارت دفاع		275
6	Hebrew (he) משרד ההגנה		195
7	Bulgarian (bg) Министерство на отбраната		174
8	Korean (ko) 국방부		154
9	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ Quốc phòng		137
10	Japanese (ja) 国防省		129

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic وزارة الدفاع
bg	Bulgarian Министерство на отбраната
de	German Verteidigungsministerium
en	English Ministry of defence
eo	Esperanto Ministerio pri defendo
et	Estonian Kaitseministeerium (üldmõiste)
fa	Persian وزارت دفاع
fr	French Ministère de la Défense
he	Hebrew משרד ההגנה
ja	Japanese 国防省
ko	Korean 국방부
lt	Lithuanian Gynybos ministerija
nl	Dutch Ministerie van Defensie
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Forsvarsdepartement
ru	Russian Министерство обороны
simple	Simple English Ministry of Defence
sv	Swedish Försvarsministerium
vi	Vietnamese Bộ Quốc phòng

Best Rank

English: #22214 10.2013

Global: #33687 03.2011

Best Rank

English: #2045 10.2003

Global: #6647 10.2003

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