Balkan

Quality:

Balkans - geopolitical and cultural region of Southeast Europe. Article “Balkan” in Slovenian Wikipedia has 87.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 70 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.61 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Slovenian Wikipedia:

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The 438^th most popular in Slovenian Wikipedia.

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The 306^th most editable in Slovenian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1769^th most popular in all topics.

The 1828^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Slovenian Wikipedia:

sl

The 462^nd most popular in Slovenian Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 88^th most editable in Slovenian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2365^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9744^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Balkan” was edited by 3 authors in Slovenian Wikipedia (88^th place) and written by 21 authors in all languages (9744^th place).

Since the creation of article “Balkan”, its content was written by 43 registered users of Slovenian Wikipedia (306^th place) and edited by 5249 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1828^th place).

The article is cited 892 times in Slovenian Wikipedia (764^th place) and cited 71652 times in all languages (2379^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Slovenian): #30 in July 2004
• Global: #172 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Slovenian): #138 in August 2023
• Global: #1022 in March 2022

There are 54 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	Ukrainian (uk) Балканський півострів		99.5317
2	Turkish (tr) Balkanlar		93.3978
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Balkan		91.3355
4	English (en) Balkans		89.8523
5	Slovenian (sl) Balkan		87.522
6	Czech (cs) Balkán		84.6436
7	Japanese (ja) バルカン半島		84.3132
8	Bulgarian (bg) Балкански полуостров		81.3587
9	Chinese (zh) 巴尔干半岛		75.8264
10	Arabic (ar) البلقان		72.6002

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Balkans		25 653 960
2	Spanish (es) Península balcánica		5 206 324
3	Russian (ru) Балканский полуостров		4 496 294
4	German (de) Balkanhalbinsel		4 224 436
5	French (fr) Balkans		3 855 035
6	Polish (pl) Półwysep Bałkański		2 947 091
7	Japanese (ja) バルカン半島		2 491 162
8	Italian (it) Penisola balcanica		2 295 706
9	Arabic (ar) البلقان		2 253 008
10	Turkish (tr) Balkanlar		1 937 876

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) Balkans		102 905
2	German (de) Balkanhalbinsel		15 133
3	French (fr) Balkans		14 782
4	Russian (ru) Балканский полуостров		12 695
5	Japanese (ja) バルカン半島		10 812
6	Spanish (es) Península balcánica		10 779
7	Polish (pl) Półwysep Bałkański		7 403
8	Chinese (zh) 巴尔干半岛		7 157
9	Italian (it) Penisola balcanica		7 130
10	Portuguese (pt) Bálcãs		6 363

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Balkans		1 418
2	German (de) Balkanhalbinsel		362
3	French (fr) Balkans		314
4	Italian (it) Penisola balcanica		210
5	Russian (ru) Балканский полуостров		198
6	Spanish (es) Península balcánica		157
7	Dutch (nl) Balkan (schiereiland)		151
8	Turkish (tr) Balkanlar		134
9	Croatian (hr) Balkanski poluotok		123
10	Swedish (sv) Balkanhalvön		105

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	Dutch (nl) Balkan (schiereiland)		4
2	Slovenian (sl) Balkan		3
3	Serbian (sr) Балкан		3
4	Estonian (et) Balkani poolsaar		2
5	Catalan (ca) Balcans		1
6	Greek (el) Βαλκάνια		1
7	Esperanto (eo) Balkana duoninsulo		1
8	Basque (eu) Balkanak		1
9	Persian (fa) بالکان		1
10	Croatian (hr) Balkanski poluotok		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information