Athens

Quality:

Athens - capital and largest city of Greece. This city is the 50^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 77^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Athens” in English Wikipedia has 92 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 195 references and 35 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4154^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 594^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 77^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1993^rd most popular in all topics.

The 409^th most popular in AI.

The 50^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6135^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3177^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3732^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Athens” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 33 authors in all languages (3732^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Athens”, its content was written by 2213 registered users of English Wikipedia (594^th place) and edited by 8606 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (409^th place).

Athens is on the 77^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 50^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 25954 times in English Wikipedia (598^th place) and cited 197442 times in all languages (558^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #122 in January 2004
• Global: #44 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1865 in August 2008
• Global: #1143 in August 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, 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	Esperanto (eo) Ateno		100
2	Urdu (ur) ایتھنز		99.2284
3	Latin (la) Athenae		95.3826
4	English (en) Athens		92.0307
5	Slovenian (sl) Atene		88.3399
6	Chinese (zh) 雅典		87.8136
7	German (de) Athen		84.1188
8	Vietnamese (vi) Athens		83.2836
9	Ukrainian (uk) Афіни		83.0755
10	Japanese (ja) アテネ		82.6369

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Athens		22 324 387
2	Spanish (es) Atenas		6 441 856
3	German (de) Athen		4 754 751
4	Greek (el) Αθήνα		3 372 964
5	French (fr) Athènes		3 321 424
6	Russian (ru) Афины		3 292 943
7	Italian (it) Atene		3 151 964
8	Portuguese (pt) Atenas		2 491 482
9	Polish (pl) Ateny		2 298 313
10	Japanese (ja) アテネ		1 187 117

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) Athens		91 837
2	German (de) Athen		13 895
3	Greek (el) Αθήνα		13 009
4	Spanish (es) Atenas		11 556
5	Russian (ru) Афины		11 533
6	French (fr) Athènes		10 061
7	Italian (it) Atene		8 812
8	Polish (pl) Ateny		7 192
9	Chinese (zh) 雅典		5 388
10	Japanese (ja) アテネ		4 232

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Athens		2 213
2	German (de) Athen		721
3	French (fr) Athènes		505
4	Spanish (es) Atenas		363
5	Italian (it) Atene		359
6	Greek (el) Αθήνα		313
7	Russian (ru) Афины		294
8	Dutch (nl) Athene (stad)		279
9	Polish (pl) Ateny		193
10	Portuguese (pt) Atenas		170

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) Athens		6
2	Persian (fa) آتن		3
3	Russian (ru) Афины		3
4	Esperanto (eo) Ateno		2
5	Spanish (es) Atenas		2
6	Hebrew (he) אתונה		2
7	Italian (it) Atene		2
8	Serbian (sr) Атина		2
9	Arabic (ar) أثينا		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Afina		1

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

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