Essen

Quality:

Essen - city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This city is the 372^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 43^rd most popular city in German Wikipedia. Article “Essen” in German Wikipedia has 93.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 158 references and 94 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 919^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 104^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 43^rd most popular in cities in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6318^th most popular in AI.

The 372^nd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 2304^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

de

The 898^th most editable in German Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Essen” was edited by 9 authors in German Wikipedia (898^th place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Essen”, its content was written by 1060 registered users of German Wikipedia (104^th place) and edited by 3221 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6318^th place).

Essen is on the 43^rd place in local ranking of cities in German Wikipedia and on the 372^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 10498 times in German Wikipedia (622^nd place) and cited 36403 times in all languages (4651^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #39 in June 2004
• Global: #561 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #183 in July 2008
• Global: #7152 in January 2026

There are 52 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) Essen		93.8428
2	English (en) Essen		75.1226
3	Ukrainian (uk) Ессен		61.3213
4	Esperanto (eo) Essen		59.8511
5	Polish (pl) Essen		58.4245
6	Czech (cs) Essen		58.3478
7	Hebrew (he) אסן		51.8126
8	Swedish (sv) Essen		49.3619
9	Russian (ru) Эссен		49.2366
10	Hungarian (hu) Essen (Észak-Rajna-Vesztfália)		49.1779

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Essen		7 726 070
2	English (en) Essen		4 217 740
3	Russian (ru) Эссен		810 278
4	Polish (pl) Essen		713 214
5	French (fr) Essen		653 003
6	Spanish (es) Essen		540 824
7	Italian (it) Essen		501 446
8	Dutch (nl) Essen (Noordrijn-Westfalen)		458 854
9	Japanese (ja) エッセン		265 604
10	Turkish (tr) Essen		214 071

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) Essen		19 657
2	English (en) Essen		15 462
3	Russian (ru) Эссен		2 723
4	Polish (pl) Essen		2 145
5	Spanish (es) Essen		2 059
6	French (fr) Essen		1 907
7	Italian (it) Essen		1 829
8	Dutch (nl) Essen (Noordrijn-Westfalen)		1 448
9	Turkish (tr) Essen		950
10	Japanese (ja) エッセン		774

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Essen		1 060
2	English (en) Essen		438
3	French (fr) Essen		164
4	Dutch (nl) Essen (Noordrijn-Westfalen)		151
5	Italian (it) Essen		135
6	Russian (ru) Эссен		99
7	Spanish (es) Essen		74
8	Hebrew (he) אסן		68
9	Hungarian (hu) Essen (Észak-Rajna-Vesztfália)		59
10	Esperanto (eo) Essen		57

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) Essen		9
2	English (en) Essen		3
3	Hungarian (hu) Essen (Észak-Rajna-Vesztfália)		2
4	Basque (eu) Essen		1
5	French (fr) Essen		1
6	Hebrew (he) אסן		1
7	Dutch (nl) Essen (Noordrijn-Westfalen)		1
8	Turkish (tr) Essen		1
9	Arabic (ar) إسن (ألمانيا)		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Essen		0

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