Köln

Quality:

Cologne - most populous city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This city is the 68^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 7^th most popular city in German Wikipedia. Article “Köln” in German Wikipedia has 88.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 209 references and 83 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.65 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 93^rd most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 11^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 7^th most popular in cities in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2681^st most popular in all topics.

The 899^th most popular in AI.

The 68^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 706^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

de

The 3644^th most editable in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4586^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5612^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Köln” was edited by 5 authors in German Wikipedia (3644^th place) and written by 27 authors in all languages (5612^th place).

Since the creation of article “Köln”, its content was written by 1594 registered users of German Wikipedia (11^th place) and edited by 6703 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (899^th place).

Cologne is on the 7^th place in local ranking of cities in German Wikipedia and on the 68^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 31501 times in German Wikipedia (120^th place) and cited 123016 times in all languages (1011^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #10 in January 2005
• Global: #198 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #17 in July 2008
• Global: #1214 in July 2008

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	Latin (la) Colonia Agrippina		93.1035
2	German (de) Köln		88.3969
3	English (en) Cologne		88.2804
4	Portuguese (pt) Colônia (Alemanha)		83.1629
5	French (fr) Cologne		73.2641
6	Dutch (nl) Keulen		69.1008
7	Slovenian (sl) Köln		67.8277
8	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		66.0352
9	Japanese (ja) ケルン		64.1475
10	Swedish (sv) Köln		63.1345

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cologne		17 812 072
2	German (de) Köln		17 597 203
3	Russian (ru) Кёльн		3 225 126
4	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		2 762 151
5	French (fr) Cologne		2 638 738
6	Italian (it) Colonia (Germania)		2 095 295
7	Dutch (nl) Keulen		1 886 055
8	Polish (pl) Kolonia (Niemcy)		1 884 184
9	Japanese (ja) ケルン		1 396 336
10	Portuguese (pt) Colônia (Alemanha)		833 873

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) Cologne		60 663
2	German (de) Köln		38 756
3	Russian (ru) Кёльн		10 298
4	French (fr) Cologne		6 542
5	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		6 176
6	Italian (it) Colonia (Germania)		5 277
7	Polish (pl) Kolonia (Niemcy)		5 054
8	Japanese (ja) ケルン		3 628
9	Chinese (zh) 科隆		3 461
10	Dutch (nl) Keulen		3 408

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Köln		1 594
2	English (en) Cologne		1 159
3	French (fr) Cologne		401
4	Dutch (nl) Keulen		360
5	Italian (it) Colonia (Germania)		270
6	Russian (ru) Кёльн		261
7	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		208
8	Japanese (ja) ケルン		132
9	Polish (pl) Kolonia (Niemcy)		131
10	Swedish (sv) Köln		124

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) Cologne		8
2	German (de) Köln		5
3	French (fr) Cologne		3
4	Hungarian (hu) Köln		2
5	Arabic (ar) كولونيا		1
6	Catalan (ca) Colònia (Alemanya)		1
7	Estonian (et) Köln		1
8	Persian (fa) کلن		1
9	Dutch (nl) Keulen		1
10	Norwegian (no) Köln		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

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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