Colombo

Quality:

Colombo - largest city and de facto capital of Sri Lanka. This city is the 429^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 968^th most popular city in German Wikipedia. Article “Colombo” in German Wikipedia has 46.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 17 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.47 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 968^th most popular in cities in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 429^th most popular in cities.

In June 2026 the article “Colombo” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Colombo”, its content was written by 184 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 2514 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Colombo is on the 968^th place in local ranking of cities in German Wikipedia and on the 429^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 1648 times in German Wikipedia (6425^th place) and cited 25291 times in all languages (6673^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #5049 in October 2023
• Global: #1320 in November 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #5225 in April 2019
• Global: #4065 in April 2019

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	Tamil (ta) கொழும்பு		88.4394
2	English (en) Colombo		84.6934
3	Ukrainian (uk) Коломбо		81.3283
4	Slovenian (sl) Kolombo		79.905
5	Spanish (es) Colombo		69.8014
6	Malay (ms) Colombo		65.1412
7	Vietnamese (vi) Colombo		63.9735
8	French (fr) Colombo		63.5435
9	Portuguese (pt) Colombo		61.8148
10	Swedish (sv) Colombo		52.8786

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Colombo		8 386 161
2	German (de) Colombo		1 031 465
3	Russian (ru) Коломбо		965 244
4	French (fr) Colombo		833 207
5	Spanish (es) Colombo		725 855
6	Japanese (ja) コロンボ		661 159
7	Polish (pl) Kolombo		370 208
8	Chinese (zh) 可倫坡		346 992
9	Portuguese (pt) Colombo		326 269
10	Italian (it) Colombo (Sri Lanka)		239 122

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) Colombo		26 363
2	Russian (ru) Коломбо		2 484
3	German (de) Colombo		2 327
4	Japanese (ja) コロンボ		2 019
5	French (fr) Colombo		1 746
6	Chinese (zh) 可倫坡		1 507
7	Spanish (es) Colombo		1 358
8	Italian (it) Colombo (Sri Lanka)		1 262
9	Polish (pl) Kolombo		860
10	Portuguese (pt) Colombo		655

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Colombo		746
2	German (de) Colombo		184
3	French (fr) Colombo		155
4	Italian (it) Colombo (Sri Lanka)		108
5	Russian (ru) Коломбо		87
6	Dutch (nl) Colombo (stad)		83
7	Spanish (es) Colombo		67
8	Chinese (zh) 可倫坡		64
9	Hebrew (he) קולומבו		58
10	Hungarian (hu) Colombo		54

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	English (en) Colombo		4
2	French (fr) Colombo		2
3	Belarusian (be) Каломба		1
4	Catalan (ca) Colombo		1
5	German (de) Colombo		1
6	Basque (eu) Kolonbo		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Colombo		1
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Colombo		1
9	Polish (pl) Kolombo		1
10	Slovenian (sl) Kolombo		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