Kiel

Quality:

Kiel - German city, capital of Schleswig-Holstein. This city is the 422^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 62^nd most popular city in German Wikipedia. Article “Kiel” in German Wikipedia has 90.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 150 references and 41 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.75 points.

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 1352^nd most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 126^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 62^nd most popular in cities in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5914^th most popular in AI.

The 422^nd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 2506^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Kiel” was edited by 3 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Kiel”, its content was written by 1002 registered users of German Wikipedia (126^th place) and edited by 3270 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5914^th place).

Kiel is on the 62^nd place in local ranking of cities in German Wikipedia and on the 422^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 11222 times in German Wikipedia (526^th place) and cited 41732 times in all languages (3921^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #64 in March 2009
• Global: #611 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #434 in July 2008
• Global: #12363 in July 2008

There are 53 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) Kiel		90.1918
2	English (en) Kiel		72.5315
3	Polish (pl) Kilonia		60.6612
4	Latin (la) Kielia		58.6772
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kiel		56.4025
6	Swedish (sv) Kiel		46.5353
7	Hebrew (he) קיל		45.341
8	Danish (da) Kiel		43.5017
9	Ukrainian (uk) Кіль (місто)		43.1736
10	French (fr) Kiel		42.7178

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Kiel		6 250 630
2	English (en) Kiel		3 470 942
3	Russian (ru) Киль (город)		687 562
4	Polish (pl) Kilonia		536 904
5	Spanish (es) Kiel		516 213
6	French (fr) Kiel		503 459
7	Italian (it) Kiel		465 871
8	Dutch (nl) Kiel (Duitsland)		294 242
9	Japanese (ja) キール (ドイツ)		289 854
10	Swedish (sv) Kiel		240 082

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) Kiel		18 296
2	English (en) Kiel		16 809
3	Russian (ru) Киль (город)		4 210
4	Italian (it) Kiel		2 759
5	French (fr) Kiel		2 607
6	Spanish (es) Kiel		2 568
7	Polish (pl) Kilonia		2 186
8	Japanese (ja) キール (ドイツ)		1 666
9	Dutch (nl) Kiel (Duitsland)		1 301
10	Swedish (sv) Kiel		1 247

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Kiel		1 002
2	English (en) Kiel		380
3	French (fr) Kiel		190
4	Italian (it) Kiel		118
5	Dutch (nl) Kiel (Duitsland)		105
6	Russian (ru) Киль (город)		105
7	Norwegian (no) Kiel		102
8	Danish (da) Kiel		81
9	Spanish (es) Kiel		74
10	Hungarian (hu) Kiel		68

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) Kiel		3
2	English (en) Kiel		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Kil		1
4	Catalan (ca) Kiel		1
5	Danish (da) Kiel		1
6	Finnish (fi) Kiel		1
7	French (fr) Kiel		1
8	Hebrew (he) קיל		1
9	Indonesian (id) Kiel		1
10	Japanese (ja) キール (ドイツ)		1

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

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