Kiel

Quality:

Kiel - German city, capital of Schleswig-Holstein. This city is the 420^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 84^th most popular city in Danish Wikipedia. Article “Kiel” in Danish Wikipedia has 43.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 20 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Danish Wikipedia:

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The 2976^th most popular in Danish Wikipedia.

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The 1929^th most editable in Danish Wikipedia.

The 84^th most popular in cities in Danish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6067^th most popular in AI.

The 420^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Danish Wikipedia:

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The 3310^th most popular in Danish Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Kiel”, its content was written by 81 registered users of Danish Wikipedia (1929^th place) and edited by 3281 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6067^th place).

Kiel is on the 84^th place in local ranking of cities in Danish Wikipedia and on the 420^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 1180 times in Danish Wikipedia (793^rd place) and cited 43551 times in all languages (3848^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Danish): #44 in October 2018
• Global: #612 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Danish): #431 in December 2025
• Global: #7108 in December 2025

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	German (de) Kiel		89.5162
2	English (en) Kiel		72.5696
3	Polish (pl) Kilonia		60.639
4	Latin (la) Kielia		59.6684
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kiel		56.4025
6	Swedish (sv) Kiel		45.6372
7	French (fr) Kiel		45.0001
8	Esperanto (eo) Kilo (urbo)		44.7201
9	Hebrew (he) קיל		44.6815
10	Danish (da) Kiel		43.4982

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Kiel		6 506 005
2	English (en) Kiel		3 663 289
3	Russian (ru) Киль (город)		758 985
4	Polish (pl) Kilonia		564 580
5	Spanish (es) Kiel		550 370
6	French (fr) Kiel		541 094
7	Italian (it) Kiel		502 054
8	Dutch (nl) Kiel (Duitsland)		308 384
9	Japanese (ja) キール (ドイツ)		306 071
10	Swedish (sv) Kiel		261 091

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Kiel		20 909
2	English (en) Kiel		14 035
3	Russian (ru) Киль (город)		3 465
4	Polish (pl) Kilonia		2 338
5	French (fr) Kiel		2 164
6	Spanish (es) Kiel		2 015
7	Italian (it) Kiel		1 988
8	Japanese (ja) キール (ドイツ)		1 417
9	Dutch (nl) Kiel (Duitsland)		1 287
10	Swedish (sv) Kiel		1 035

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Kiel		1 022
2	English (en) Kiel		392
3	French (fr) Kiel		193
4	Italian (it) Kiel		119
5	Russian (ru) Киль (город)		106
6	Dutch (nl) Kiel (Duitsland)		105
7	Danish (da) Kiel		81
8	Spanish (es) Kiel		75
9	Hungarian (hu) Kiel		69
10	Norwegian (no) Kiel		67

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	German (de) Kiel		7
2	French (fr) Kiel		3
3	Arabic (ar) كيل		1
4	English (en) Kiel		1
5	Basque (eu) Kiel		1
6	Hebrew (he) קיל		1
7	Russian (ru) Киль (город)		1
8	Slovenian (sl) Kiel		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Kil		0
10	Belarusian (be) Кіль (горад)		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Danish Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Egeprocessionsspinder, Demokratiske Republik Congo, Senegal, Harry Kane, Erling Haaland, Sadio Mané, Novak Djokovic, Tour de France 2026, The Cure, Jesper Grønkjær.

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