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Balkanization

Quality:

Balkanization - geopolitical term for the fragmentation of a region into smaller states. Article “Balkanization” in English Wikipedia has 38.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.83 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Balkanization”, its content was written by 230 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 712 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 247 times in English Wikipedia and cited 798 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #7257 in February 2003
  • Global: #5236 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #37100 in October 2011
  • Global: #55621 in October 2011

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, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Arabic (ar)
بلقنة
42.0005
2English (en)
Balkanization
38.6808
3Malay (ms)
Balkanisasi
31.0319
4German (de)
Balkanisierung
30.7324
5Indonesian (id)
Balkanisasi
29.4621
6Chinese (zh)
巴尔干化
28.7669
7Croatian (hr)
Balkanizacija
27.2782
8Italian (it)
Balcanizzazione
27.1179
9Spanish (es)
Balcanización
26.8727
10Greek (el)
Βαλκανοποίηση
26.0258
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Balkanization" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Balkanization
3 170 924
2Spanish (es)
Balcanización
372 631
3French (fr)
Balkanisation
253 792
4German (de)
Balkanisierung
184 959
5Italian (it)
Balcanizzazione
93 942
6Polish (pl)
Bałkanizacja
87 078
7Russian (ru)
Балканизация
78 316
8Chinese (zh)
巴尔干化
76 404
9Japanese (ja)
バルカニゼーション
50 846
10Portuguese (pt)
Balcanização
28 445
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Balkanization" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Balkanization
17 810
2Russian (ru)
Балканизация
1 719
3Japanese (ja)
バルカニゼーション
1 023
4Spanish (es)
Balcanización
847
5French (fr)
Balkanisation
660
6German (de)
Balkanisierung
480
7Chinese (zh)
巴尔干化
422
8Portuguese (pt)
Balcanização
198
9Italian (it)
Balcanizzazione
192
10Korean (ko)
발칸화
122
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Balkanization" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Balkanization
230
2German (de)
Balkanisierung
82
3French (fr)
Balkanisation
59
4Italian (it)
Balcanizzazione
35
5Chinese (zh)
巴尔干化
26
6Norwegian (no)
Balkanisering
20
7Polish (pl)
Bałkanizacja
20
8Dutch (nl)
Balkanisering
19
9Spanish (es)
Balcanización
17
10Russian (ru)
Балканизация
17
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Balkanization" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
بلقنة
1
2Basque (eu)
Balkanizazio
1
3Persian (fa)
بالکانیزاسیون
1
4Chinese (zh)
巴尔干化
1
5Azerbaijani (az)
Balkanlaşdırma
0
6Belarusian (be)
Балканізацыя
0
7Bulgarian (bg)
Балканизация
0
8Catalan (ca)
Balcanització
0
9German (de)
Balkanisierung
0
10Greek (el)
Βαλκανοποίηση
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Balkanization" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Balkanization
247
2Ukrainian (uk)
Балканізація
61
3Polish (pl)
Bałkanizacja
55
4French (fr)
Balkanisation
45
5Spanish (es)
Balcanización
40
6German (de)
Balkanisierung
31
7Arabic (ar)
بلقنة
28
8Romanian (ro)
Balcanizare
27
9Chinese (zh)
巴尔干化
24
10Japanese (ja)
バルカニゼーション
21
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
بلقنة
azAzerbaijani
Balkanlaşdırma
beBelarusian
Балканізацыя
bgBulgarian
Балканизация
caCatalan
Balcanització
deGerman
Balkanisierung
elGreek
Βαλκανοποίηση
enEnglish
Balkanization
esSpanish
Balcanización
etEstonian
Balkaniseerumine
euBasque
Balkanizazio
faPersian
بالکانیزاسیون
fiFinnish
Balkanisointi
frFrench
Balkanisation
glGalician
Balcanización
heHebrew
בלקניזציה
hiHindi
बाल्कनीकरण
hrCroatian
Balkanizacija
idIndonesian
Balkanisasi
itItalian
Balcanizzazione
jaJapanese
バルカニゼーション
kkKazakh
Балканизация
koKorean
발칸화
msMalay
Balkanisasi
nlDutch
Balkanisering
noNorwegian
Balkanisering
plPolish
Bałkanizacja
ptPortuguese
Balcanização
roRomanian
Balcanizare
ruRussian
Балканизация
srSerbian
Балканизација
svSwedish
Balkanisering
trTurkish
Balkanlaşma
ukUkrainian
Балканізація
viVietnamese
Balkan hóa
zhChinese
巴尔干化

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#37100
10.2011
Global:
#55621
10.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#7257
02.2003
Global:
#5236
02.2003

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Balkanization from Wikipedia articles about Balkans, Spanish American wars of independence, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict and Splinternet. Whereas reading the article about Balkanization people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Shatter belt (geopolitcs), Balkan Wars, Balkans, Pejorative and Breakup of Yugoslavia.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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