Istanbul

Quality:

Istanbul - largest city in Turkey. This city is the 14^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 22^nd most popular city in German Wikipedia. Article “Istanbul” in German Wikipedia has 89.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 131 references and 41 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.71 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 448^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 145^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 22^nd most popular in cities in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 541^st most popular in all topics.

The 187^th most popular in AI.

The 14^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 2444^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1640^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1606^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Istanbul” was edited by 3 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 50 authors in all languages (1606^th place).

Since the creation of article “Istanbul”, its content was written by 1000 registered users of German Wikipedia (145^th place) and edited by 10653 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (187^th place).

Istanbul is on the 22^nd place in local ranking of cities in German Wikipedia and on the 14^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 12207 times in German Wikipedia (464^th place) and cited 195595 times in all languages (586^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #65 in October 2001
• Global: #53 in June 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #176 in March 2010
• Global: #311 in March 2013

There are 55 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	Hungarian (hu) Isztambul		100
2	Serbian (sr) Истанбул		100
3	Slovenian (sl) Carigrad		100
4	Vietnamese (vi) Istanbul		100
5	Georgian (ka) სტამბოლი		100
6	Armenian (hy) Ստամբուլ		100
7	Urdu (ur) استنبول		100
8	Esperanto (eo) Istanbulo		100
9	Indonesian (id) Istanbul		97.7758
10	Turkish (tr) İstanbul		97.5544

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Istanbul		38 012 779
2	Turkish (tr) İstanbul		13 664 690
3	German (de) Istanbul		10 416 561
4	Russian (ru) Стамбул		10 276 495
5	Spanish (es) Estambul		8 843 403
6	French (fr) Istanbul		5 492 232
7	Italian (it) Istanbul		5 204 666
8	Arabic (ar) إسطنبول		3 777 195
9	Polish (pl) Stambuł		3 503 599
10	Japanese (ja) イスタンブール		2 898 678

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) Istanbul		108 497
2	Turkish (tr) İstanbul		31 478
3	Russian (ru) Стамбул		27 039
4	German (de) Istanbul		18 978
5	Spanish (es) Estambul		15 667
6	Polish (pl) Stambuł		12 449
7	Italian (it) Istanbul		10 969
8	French (fr) Istanbul		10 439
9	Japanese (ja) イスタンブール		9 128
10	Portuguese (pt) Istambul		8 497

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Istanbul		2 153
2	German (de) Istanbul		1 000
3	Turkish (tr) İstanbul		974
4	French (fr) Istanbul		604
5	Russian (ru) Стамбул		464
6	Italian (it) Istanbul		423
7	Dutch (nl) Istanbul		365
8	Spanish (es) Estambul		353
9	Persian (fa) استانبول		298
10	Polish (pl) Stambuł		230

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) Istanbul		7
2	Turkish (tr) İstanbul		6
3	Italian (it) Istanbul		5
4	French (fr) Istanbul		4
5	Azerbaijani (az) İstanbul		3
6	German (de) Istanbul		3
7	Russian (ru) Стамбул		3
8	Danish (da) Istanbul		2
9	Spanish (es) Estambul		2
10	Arabic (ar) إسطنبول		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