Iraklio

Quality:

Heraklion - city in the island of Crete, Greece. This city is the 618^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 827^th most popular city in German Wikipedia. Article “Iraklio” in German Wikipedia has 70.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 32 references and 34 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 827^th most popular in cities in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 618^th most popular in cities.

In June 2025 the article “Iraklio” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Iraklio”, its content was written by 219 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 2246 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Heraklion is on the 827^th place in local ranking of cities in German Wikipedia and on the 618^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 1064 times in German Wikipedia and cited 16005 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2712 in October 2019
• Global: #2172 in April 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #7843 in September 2021
• Global: #15028 in July 2023

There are 51 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	Greek (el) Ηράκλειο		90.8332
2	German (de) Iraklio		70.3245
3	English (en) Heraklion		69.1319
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Iráklio		64.1326
5	Finnish (fi) Iraklion		63.8867
6	Slovenian (sl) Iraklion		61.5704
7	Spanish (es) Heraclión		58.2444
8	French (fr) Héraklion		50.0508
9	Polish (pl) Heraklion		46.2581
10	Croatian (hr) Heraklion		43.9684

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Heraklion		3 700 073
2	German (de) Iraklio		1 097 408
3	Greek (el) Ηράκλειο		1 034 657
4	French (fr) Héraklion		817 441
5	Russian (ru) Ираклион		765 725
6	Italian (it) Candia		578 607
7	Polish (pl) Heraklion		576 885
8	Spanish (es) Heraclión		514 805
9	Dutch (nl) Iraklion (stad)		198 968
10	Czech (cs) Heráklion		145 937

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) Heraklion		24 094
2	German (de) Iraklio		5 782
3	Greek (el) Ηράκλειο		4 479
4	Polish (pl) Heraklion		4 210
5	French (fr) Héraklion		4 095
6	Italian (it) Candia		3 766
7	Russian (ru) Ираклион		2 990
8	Spanish (es) Heraclión		2 559
9	Czech (cs) Heráklion		1 957
10	Romanian (ro) Heraklion		1 767

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Heraklion		392
2	German (de) Iraklio		219
3	Greek (el) Ηράκλειο		198
4	French (fr) Héraklion		151
5	Italian (it) Candia		145
6	Russian (ru) Ираклион		99
7	Dutch (nl) Iraklion (stad)		94
8	Polish (pl) Heraklion		90
9	Spanish (es) Heraclión		74
10	Hungarian (hu) Iráklio		58

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	Azerbaijani (az) İraklion		1
2	Catalan (ca) Càndia		1
3	German (de) Iraklio		1
4	Greek (el) Ηράκλειο		1
5	Croatian (hr) Heraklion		1
6	Polish (pl) Heraklion		1
7	Russian (ru) Ираклион		1
8	Slovak (sk) Iraklio (mesto na Kréte)		1
9	Arabic (ar) كاندية		0
10	Belarusian (be) Іракліян		0

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

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