Bulge

Galactic bulge - central feature/region of a spiral galaxy. Article “Bulge” in Dutch Wikipedia has 8.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Bulge”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 384 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 2795 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #8082 in February 2023
• Global: #36176 in December 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #155422 in November 2023
• Global: #135283 in April 2019

There are 25 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) Galactic bulge		56.3316
2	Russian (ru) Балдж		51.3041
3	Portuguese (pt) Bojo galáctico		38.1509
4	Croatian (hr) Ispupčenje (astronomija)		33.9443
5	Chinese (zh) 核球		32.1141
6	Ukrainian (uk) Балдж		30.8142
7	Korean (ko) 은하팽대부		29.8618
8	Czech (cs) Galaktická výduť		29.5816
9	Romanian (ro) Bulb (astronomie)		29.3611
10	German (de) Bulge		27.0574

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Galactic bulge		602 353
2	Russian (ru) Балдж		232 980
3	Japanese (ja) 銀河バルジ		206 912
4	German (de) Bulge		196 185
5	Italian (it) Bulge		93 039
6	Spanish (es) Bulbo galáctico		71 811
7	French (fr) Bulbe galactique		70 721
8	Polish (pl) Centralne zgrubienie galaktyczne		42 078
9	Chinese (zh) 核球		36 942
10	Korean (ko) 은하팽대부		26 616

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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 "Bulge" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Galactic bulge		3 269
2	Russian (ru) Балдж		1 144
3	Japanese (ja) 銀河バルジ		560
4	German (de) Bulge		517
5	Italian (it) Bulge		179
6	French (fr) Bulbe galactique		167
7	Korean (ko) 은하팽대부		165
8	Spanish (es) Bulbo galáctico		138
9	Chinese (zh) 核球		135
10	Portuguese (pt) Bojo galáctico		84

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Galactic bulge		85
2	German (de) Bulge		45
3	French (fr) Bulbe galactique		42
4	Italian (it) Bulge		38
5	Russian (ru) Балдж		21
6	Arabic (ar) حوصلة مجرة		18
7	Japanese (ja) 銀河バルジ		16
8	Norwegian (no) Galakseutbuling		12
9	Turkish (tr) Şişkinlik (gökbilim)		12
10	Chinese (zh) 核球		12

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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 "Bulge" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Galactic bulge		1
2	Arabic (ar) حوصلة مجرة		0
3	Catalan (ca) Bulb galàctic		0
4	Czech (cs) Galaktická výduť		0
5	German (de) Bulge		0
6	Spanish (es) Bulbo galáctico		0
7	Persian (fa) برآمدگی کهکشانی		0
8	French (fr) Bulbe galactique		0
9	Croatian (hr) Ispupčenje (astronomija)		0
10	Indonesian (id) Tonjolan (astronomi)		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 "Bulge" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Bulbe galactique		446
2	English (en) Galactic bulge		440
3	Russian (ru) Балдж		253
4	Italian (it) Bulge		153
5	Chinese (zh) 核球		151
6	Arabic (ar) حوصلة مجرة		143
7	Turkish (tr) Şişkinlik (gökbilim)		122
8	Japanese (ja) 銀河バルジ		110
9	Korean (ko) 은하팽대부		110
10	Catalan (ca) Bulb galàctic		108

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حوصلة مجرة
ca	Catalan Bulb galàctic
cs	Czech Galaktická výduť
de	German Bulge
en	English Galactic bulge
es	Spanish Bulbo galáctico
fa	Persian برآمدگی کهکشانی
fr	French Bulbe galactique
hr	Croatian Ispupčenje (astronomija)
id	Indonesian Tonjolan (astronomi)
it	Italian Bulge
ja	Japanese 銀河バルジ
ko	Korean 은하팽대부
lt	Lithuanian Centrinis telkinys
nl	Dutch Bulge
no	Norwegian Galakseutbuling
pl	Polish Centralne zgrubienie galaktyczne
pt	Portuguese Bojo galáctico
ro	Romanian Bulb (astronomie)
ru	Russian Балдж
th	Thai ดุมดาราจักร
tr	Turkish Şişkinlik (gökbilim)
uk	Ukrainian Балдж
uz	Uzbek Balj
zh	Chinese 核球

Best Rank

Dutch: #155422 11.2023

Global: #135283 04.2019

Best Rank

Dutch: #8082 02.2023

Global: #36176 12.2008

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