Kirkenes

Quality:

Kirkenes - town in Sør-Varanger Municipality, Norway. This city is the 1992^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 550^th most popular city in Danish Wikipedia. Article “Kirkenes” in Danish Wikipedia has 39.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 28 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Danish Wikipedia:

The 550^th most popular in cities in Danish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1992^nd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Danish Wikipedia:

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The 9968^th most popular in Danish Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Kirkenes”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Danish Wikipedia and edited by 950 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Kirkenes is on the 550^th place in local ranking of cities in Danish Wikipedia and on the 1992^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 64 times in Danish Wikipedia and cited 3240 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Danish): #316 in April 2023
• Global: #1574 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Danish): #5864 in March 2020
• Global: #20926 in September 2014

There are 38 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Kirkenes		63.5595
2	English (en) Kirkenes		63.414
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kirkenes		47.304
4	Russian (ru) Киркенес		44.6336
5	Hungarian (hu) Kirkenes		42.2981
6	Danish (da) Kirkenes		39.5953
7	Catalan (ca) Kirkenes		38.8617
8	Polish (pl) Kirkenes		37.244
9	Finnish (fi) Kirkkoniemi		37.2288
10	Swedish (sv) Kirkenes		35.739

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kirkenes		1 077 995
2	German (de) Kirkenes		565 095
3	Russian (ru) Киркенес		484 736
4	Norwegian (no) Kirkenes		330 862
5	Finnish (fi) Kirkkoniemi		194 782
6	Swedish (sv) Kirkenes		183 804
7	French (fr) Kirkenes		113 474
8	Polish (pl) Kirkenes		110 728
9	Dutch (nl) Kirkenes		95 436
10	Italian (it) Kirkenes		79 826

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) Kirkenes		4 904
2	German (de) Kirkenes		3 024
3	Russian (ru) Киркенес		2 412
4	Finnish (fi) Kirkkoniemi		1 690
5	Norwegian (no) Kirkenes		1 510
6	Swedish (sv) Kirkenes		1 094
7	French (fr) Kirkenes		797
8	Dutch (nl) Kirkenes		514
9	Polish (pl) Kirkenes		428
10	Italian (it) Kirkenes		364

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kirkenes		170
2	German (de) Kirkenes		141
3	Norwegian (no) Kirkenes		118
4	French (fr) Kirkenes		64
5	Russian (ru) Киркенес		60
6	Dutch (nl) Kirkenes		43
7	Italian (it) Kirkenes		42
8	Finnish (fi) Kirkkoniemi		36
9	Swedish (sv) Kirkenes		32
10	Spanish (es) Kirkenes		20

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	Hungarian (hu) Kirkenes		2
2	Catalan (ca) Kirkenes		1
3	Czech (cs) Kirkenes		1
4	German (de) Kirkenes		1
5	English (en) Kirkenes		1
6	Norwegian (no) Kirkenes		1
7	Arabic (ar) شيركنيس		0
8	Belarusian (be) Кіркенес		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Хиркенес		0
10	Danish (da) Kirkenes		0

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

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