Athens

Quality:

Athens - capital and largest city of Greece. This city is the 51^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 79^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Athens” in English Wikipedia has 85.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 201 references and 42 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.51 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4243^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 592^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 79^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2016^th most popular in all topics.

The 419^th most popular in AI.

The 51^st most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7684^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4075^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3904^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Athens” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 33 authors in all languages (3904^th place).

Since the creation of article “Athens”, its content was written by 2264 registered users of English Wikipedia (592^nd place) and edited by 8652 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (419^th place).

Athens is on the 79^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 51^st place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 26418 times in English Wikipedia (530^th place) and cited 203663 times in all languages (553^rd 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): #1886 in August 2008
• Global: #1134 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, 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	Urdu (ur) ایتھنز		100
2	Esperanto (eo) Ateno		100
3	Latin (la) Athenae		95.1958
4	Slovenian (sl) Atene		88.0706
5	Chinese (zh) 雅典		87.7196
6	English (en) Athens		85.6864
7	German (de) Athen		84.448
8	Vietnamese (vi) Athens		83.4523
9	Japanese (ja) アテネ		82.4294
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Aten		80.3208

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Athens		23 234 201
2	Spanish (es) Atenas		6 572 669
3	German (de) Athen		4 949 964
4	Russian (ru) Афины		3 655 925
5	Greek (el) Αθήνα		3 512 186
6	French (fr) Athènes		3 448 764
7	Italian (it) Atene		3 113 043
8	Portuguese (pt) Atenas		2 539 835
9	Polish (pl) Ateny		2 396 340
10	Japanese (ja) アテネ		1 234 613

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		71 386
2	German (de) Athen		13 801
3	Russian (ru) Афины		10 036
4	French (fr) Athènes		8 588
5	Spanish (es) Atenas		7 869
6	Greek (el) Αθήνα		7 506
7	Italian (it) Atene		6 940
8	Polish (pl) Ateny		6 536
9	Japanese (ja) アテネ		3 840
10	Chinese (zh) 雅典		3 345

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Athens		2 264
2	German (de) Athen		729
3	French (fr) Athènes		512
4	Spanish (es) Atenas		374
5	Italian (it) Atene		363
6	Greek (el) Αθήνα		319
7	Russian (ru) Афины		301
8	Dutch (nl) Athene (stad)		283
9	Polish (pl) Ateny		198
10	Portuguese (pt) Atenas		174

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		7
2	German (de) Athen		3
3	Hungarian (hu) Athén		3
4	Russian (ru) Афины		3
5	Greek (el) Αθήνα		2
6	Esperanto (eo) Ateno		2
7	Azerbaijani (az) Afina		1
8	Catalan (ca) Atenes		1
9	Basque (eu) Atenas		1
10	Persian (fa) آتن		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.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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