Balen

Balen - municipality in Antwerp, Belgium. Article “Balen” in French Wikipedia has 27.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in Dutch Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Balen” was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Balen”, its content was written by 45 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 428 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 149 times in French Wikipedia and cited 1651 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #24644 in February 2013
• Global: #15870 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #166948 in March 2009
• Global: #462933 in April 2012

There are 24 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	Dutch (nl) Balen (België)		47.5977
2	Simple English (simple) Balen		37.4666
3	English (en) Balen		34.3879
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Balen		33.8545
5	Swedish (sv) Balen, Belgien		31.427
6	Chinese (zh) 巴伦		29.6056
7	Slovak (sk) Balen		28.88
8	French (fr) Balen		27.0967
9	Arabic (ar) بالن		26.1536
10	Vietnamese (vi) Balen		22.9671

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Dutch (nl) Balen (België)		198 846
2	English (en) Balen		97 346
3	French (fr) Balen		42 619
4	German (de) Balen		24 121
5	Russian (ru) Бален (Антверпен)		8 352
6	Italian (it) Balen (Anversa)		7 788
7	Portuguese (pt) Balen		7 665
8	Chinese (zh) 巴伦		7 018
9	Norwegian (no) Balen		3 824
10	Simple English (simple) Balen		3 749

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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 "Balen" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Dutch (nl) Balen (België)		824
2	English (en) Balen		252
3	French (fr) Balen		130
4	German (de) Balen		91
5	Esperanto (eo) Balen		90
6	Chinese (zh) 巴伦		61
7	Spanish (es) Balen (Bélgica)		33
8	Italian (it) Balen (Anversa)		23
9	Russian (ru) Бален (Антверпен)		21
10	Simple English (simple) Balen		21

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Balen (België)		118
2	English (en) Balen		49
3	French (fr) Balen		45
4	German (de) Balen		38
5	Italian (it) Balen (Anversa)		33
6	Norwegian (no) Balen		31
7	Russian (ru) Бален (Антверпен)		19
8	Vietnamese (vi) Balen		17
9	Esperanto (eo) Balen		15
10	Simple English (simple) Balen		8

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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 "Balen" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Balen		1
2	Dutch (nl) Balen (België)		1
3	Chinese (zh) 巴伦		1
4	Arabic (ar) بالن		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Бален		0
6	Catalan (ca) Balen		0
7	German (de) Balen		0
8	English (en) Balen		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Balen		0
10	Spanish (es) Balen (Bélgica)		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 "Balen" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Dutch (nl) Balen (België)		280
2	French (fr) Balen		149
3	English (en) Balen		107
4	German (de) Balen		99
5	Catalan (ca) Balen		82
6	Italian (it) Balen (Anversa)		81
7	Turkish (tr) Balen		75
8	Chinese (zh) 巴伦		75
9	Bulgarian (bg) Бален		74
10	Esperanto (eo) Balen		74

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic بالن
bg	Bulgarian Бален
ca	Catalan Balen
de	German Balen
en	English Balen
eo	Esperanto Balen
es	Spanish Balen (Bélgica)
eu	Basque Balen
fa	Persian بلان (بلژیک)
fr	French Balen
it	Italian Balen (Anversa)
nl	Dutch Balen (België)
no	Norwegian Balen
pl	Polish Balen
pt	Portuguese Balen
ro	Romanian Balen
ru	Russian Бален (Антверпен)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Balen
simple	Simple English Balen
sk	Slovak Balen
sv	Swedish Balen, Belgien
tr	Turkish Balen
vi	Vietnamese Balen
zh	Chinese 巴伦

Best Rank

French: #166948 03.2009

Global: #462933 04.2012

Best Rank

French: #24644 02.2013

Global: #15870 02.2013

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