Handball

Quality:

Handball - team sport played with a thrown ball and goals. This event is the 48^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 16^th most popular event in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “Handball” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 10.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 1048^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

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The 2516^th most editable in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 16^th most popular in events in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1751^st most popular in all topics.

The 1694^th most popular in AI.

The 48^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 7311^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Handball”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (2516^th place) and edited by 5383 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1694^th place).

Handball is on the 16^th place in local ranking of events in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 48^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 582 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (576^th place) and cited 102289 times in all languages (1368^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #11 in November 2013
• Global: #240 in November 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #141 in August 2008
• Global: #201 in August 2016

There are 53 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, 2026 (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	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		87.796
2	Chinese (zh) 手球		74.0595
3	English (en) Handball		72.9642
4	German (de) Handball		67.7162
5	French (fr) Handball		65.5057
6	Catalan (ca) Handbol		61.9092
7	Dutch (nl) Handbal		55.3336
8	Spanish (es) Balonmano		50.2234
9	Finnish (fi) Käsipallo		47.392
10	Russian (ru) Гандбол		46.836

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Balonmano		15 224 205
2	English (en) Handball		12 621 736
3	Portuguese (pt) Andebol		7 042 108
4	French (fr) Handball		5 804 515
5	Arabic (ar) كرة اليد		4 709 356
6	German (de) Handball		4 662 990
7	Russian (ru) Гандбол		3 090 073
8	Polish (pl) Piłka ręczna		2 778 662
9	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		2 088 554
10	Italian (it) Pallamano		1 534 504

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) Handball		30 200
2	Spanish (es) Balonmano		9 267
3	German (de) Handball		5 447
4	Russian (ru) Гандбол		5 148
5	French (fr) Handball		4 501
6	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		4 167
7	Portuguese (pt) Andebol		2 312
8	Chinese (zh) 手球		2 035
9	Italian (it) Pallamano		1 850
10	Polish (pl) Piłka ręczna		1 696

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Handball		904
2	German (de) Handball		501
3	French (fr) Handball		472
4	Spanish (es) Balonmano		402
5	Italian (it) Pallamano		303
6	Portuguese (pt) Andebol		220
7	Polish (pl) Piłka ręczna		199
8	Dutch (nl) Handbal		184
9	Swedish (sv) Handboll		146
10	Norwegian (no) Håndball		144

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	Catalan (ca) Handbol		2
2	German (de) Handball		1
3	Hebrew (he) כדוריד		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Kézilabda		1
5	Italian (it) Pallamano		1
6	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		1
7	Dutch (nl) Handbal		1
8	Chinese (zh) 手球		1
9	Arabic (ar) كرة اليد		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Həndbol		0

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

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