Car bomb

Quality:

Car bomb - improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in vehicles used primarily to kill the occupants of the vehicle (often as an assassination) and as a means to damage targets outside the vehicle by parking or delivering. Article “Car bomb” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Car bomb”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1112 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 56 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6336 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #420 in January 2010
• Global: #1303 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3676 in May 2022
• Global: #41638 in June 2008

There are 36 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	English (en) Car bomb		75.685
2	Russian (ru) Автомобиль-бомба		43.9745
3	French (fr) Véhicule piégé		43.639
4	Croatian (hr) Auto-bomba		34.4077
5	Ukrainian (uk) СВП у транспортному засобі		32.59
6	Italian (it) Autobomba		30.9931
7	Persian (fa) خودرو انفجاری		28.7486
8	Catalan (ca) Cotxe bomba		27.6763
9	Esperanto (eo) Bombaŭto		26.5404
10	Thai (th) ระเบิดติดรถ		23.7605

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Car bomb		3 038 884
2	Spanish (es) Coche bomba		382 291
3	Japanese (ja) 車爆弾		184 605
4	German (de) Autobombe		169 390
5	Russian (ru) Автомобиль-бомба		128 902
6	French (fr) Véhicule piégé		123 486
7	Chinese (zh) 汽车炸弹		106 100
8	Arabic (ar) سيارة مفخخة		90 418
9	Italian (it) Autobomba		88 644
10	Hebrew (he) מכונית תופת		74 252

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) Car bomb		13 736
2	Spanish (es) Coche bomba		806
3	Russian (ru) Автомобиль-бомба		714
4	Japanese (ja) 車爆弾		577
5	Italian (it) Autobomba		390
6	Persian (fa) خودرو انفجاری		375
7	German (de) Autobombe		371
8	French (fr) Véhicule piégé		342
9	Chinese (zh) 汽车炸弹		303
10	Hebrew (he) מכונית תופת		161

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Car bomb		475
2	French (fr) Véhicule piégé		80
3	German (de) Autobombe		74
4	Dutch (nl) Autobom		64
5	Spanish (es) Coche bomba		53
6	Hebrew (he) מכונית תופת		45
7	Italian (it) Autobomba		35
8	Russian (ru) Автомобиль-бомба		30
9	Japanese (ja) 車爆弾		28
10	Portuguese (pt) Carro-bomba		26

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	Russian (ru) Автомобиль-бомба		2
2	Catalan (ca) Cotxe bomba		1
3	Basque (eu) Bonba-auto		1
4	Japanese (ja) 車爆弾		1
5	Swedish (sv) Bilbomb		1
6	Arabic (ar) سيارة مفخخة		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Bombalı maşın		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Кола бомба		0
9	Danish (da) Bilbombe		0
10	German (de) Autobombe		0

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

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