Löwen

Leuven - capital city of Flemish Brabant, Belgium. This city is the 679^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 680^th most popular city in German Wikipedia. Article “Löwen” in German Wikipedia has 61.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 32 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Löwen” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Löwen”, its content was written by 290 registered users of German Wikipedia (8513^th place) and edited by 2393 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Leuven is on the 680^th place in local ranking of cities in German Wikipedia and on the 679^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 2137 times in German Wikipedia (4444^th place) and cited 23578 times in all languages (6957^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2360 in March 2010
• Global: #2156 in March 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #10290 in August 2014
• Global: #21385 in September 2021

There are 46 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	Dutch (nl) Leuven		79.3414
2	English (en) Leuven		67.8608
3	German (de) Löwen		61.4116
4	Slovenian (sl) Leuven		56.1399
5	French (fr) Louvain		54.5897
6	Chinese (zh) 鲁汶		52.3725
7	Italian (it) Lovanio		50.0652
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Leuven		49.5105
9	Croatian (hr) Leuven		43.3151
10	Hungarian (hu) Leuven		42.3733

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Löwen" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Leuven		3 365 019
2	Dutch (nl) Leuven		1 475 930
3	German (de) Löwen		1 278 961
4	French (fr) Louvain		898 024
5	Spanish (es) Lovaina		641 149
6	Italian (it) Lovanio		608 254
7	Polish (pl) Leuven		376 655
8	Russian (ru) Лёвен		285 841
9	Portuguese (pt) Lovaina		152 327
10	Japanese (ja) ルーヴェン		140 859

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Löwen" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Leuven		13 861
2	German (de) Löwen		5 276
3	Dutch (nl) Leuven		5 221
4	French (fr) Louvain		3 790
5	Italian (it) Lovanio		3 661
6	Spanish (es) Lovaina		1 953
7	Russian (ru) Лёвен		1 580
8	Polish (pl) Leuven		1 082
9	Chinese (zh) 鲁汶		981
10	Japanese (ja) ルーヴェン		711

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

Language versions of the article "Löwen" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Leuven		415
2	Dutch (nl) Leuven		384
3	German (de) Löwen		290
4	French (fr) Louvain		225
5	Italian (it) Lovanio		119
6	Spanish (es) Lovaina		87
7	Russian (ru) Лёвен		66
8	Hungarian (hu) Leuven		64
9	Polish (pl) Leuven		64
10	Esperanto (eo) Loveno		46

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

Language versions of the article "Löwen" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Louvain		3
2	Dutch (nl) Leuven		3
3	German (de) Löwen		2
4	Chinese (zh) 鲁汶		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Löven		1
6	Catalan (ca) Lovaina		1
7	English (en) Leuven		1
8	Arabic (ar) لوفن		0
9	Belarusian (be) Лёвен		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Льовен		0

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

Language versions of the article "Löwen" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Dutch (nl) Leuven		4 738
2	French (fr) Louvain		3 465
3	English (en) Leuven		2 875
4	German (de) Löwen		2 137
5	Italian (it) Lovanio		1 603
6	Spanish (es) Lovaina		876
7	Polish (pl) Leuven		791
8	Russian (ru) Лёвен		712
9	Portuguese (pt) Lovaina		570
10	Catalan (ca) Lovaina		452

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لوفن
az	Azerbaijani Löven
be	Belarusian Лёвен
bg	Bulgarian Льовен
ca	Catalan Lovaina
cs	Czech Lovaň
da	Danish Leuven
de	German Löwen
el	Greek Λέβεν
en	English Leuven
eo	Esperanto Loveno
es	Spanish Lovaina
et	Estonian Leuven
eu	Basque Lovaina (hiria)
fa	Persian لوون
fi	Finnish Leuven
fr	French Louvain
he	Hebrew לוון
hr	Croatian Leuven
hu	Hungarian Leuven
hy	Armenian Լյովեն
id	Indonesian Leuven
it	Italian Lovanio
ja	Japanese ルーヴェン
ko	Korean 뢰번
la	Latin Lovanium
lt	Lithuanian Levenas
nl	Dutch Leuven
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Leuven
no	Norwegian Leuven
pl	Polish Leuven
pt	Portuguese Lovaina
ro	Romanian Leuven
ru	Russian Лёвен
sh	Serbo-Croatian Leuven
simple	Simple English Leuven
sk	Slovak Leuven
sl	Slovenian Leuven
sr	Serbian Левен
sv	Swedish Leuven
th	Thai เลอเฟิน
tr	Turkish Leuven
uk	Ukrainian Левен
ur	Urdu لووین
vi	Vietnamese Leuven
zh	Chinese 鲁汶

Best Rank

German: #10290 08.2014

Global: #21385 09.2021

Best Rank

German: #2360 03.2010

Global: #2156 03.2010

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