Baku

Quality:

Baku - capital of Azerbaijan. This city is the 115^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 175^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Baku” in English Wikipedia has 88.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 211 references and 41 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 Azerbaijani Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5172^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 175^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5534^th most popular in all topics.

The 1547^th most popular in AI.

The 115^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8710^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8370^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Baku” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (8370^th place).

Since the creation of article “Baku”, its content was written by 1121 registered users of English Wikipedia (5172^nd place) and edited by 5562 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1547^th place).

Baku is on the 175^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 115^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 10236 times in English Wikipedia (1983^rd place) and cited 98493 times in all languages (1445^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #852 in November 2001
• Global: #73 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #908 in June 2016
• Global: #324 in June 2016

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	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		100
2	Uzbek (uz) Boku		100
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Baku		100
4	Arabic (ar) باكو		96.7169
5	Russian (ru) Баку		94.7916
6	Slovenian (sl) Baku		89.3089
7	English (en) Baku		88.3687
8	Turkish (tr) Bakü		86.753
9	Spanish (es) Bakú		85.6176
10	German (de) Baku		85.5738

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Baku		13 902 616
2	Russian (ru) Баку		6 250 784
3	German (de) Baku		2 922 165
4	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		1 963 682
5	Spanish (es) Bakú		1 809 962
6	Italian (it) Baku		1 729 900
7	Polish (pl) Baku		1 338 396
8	French (fr) Bakou		1 315 108
9	Persian (fa) باکو		1 114 209
10	Turkish (tr) Bakü		991 415

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) Baku		43 597
2	Russian (ru) Баку		14 955
3	German (de) Baku		5 580
4	Polish (pl) Baku		3 835
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		3 598
6	Spanish (es) Bakú		3 590
7	Persian (fa) باکو		3 534
8	Italian (it) Baku		3 422
9	French (fr) Bakou		3 332
10	Turkish (tr) Bakü		2 601

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Baku		1 121
2	Russian (ru) Баку		447
3	German (de) Baku		369
4	French (fr) Bakou		281
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		255
6	Italian (it) Baku		243
7	Turkish (tr) Bakü		206
8	Dutch (nl) Bakoe		200
9	Persian (fa) باکو		176
10	Spanish (es) Bakú		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) Baku		3
2	Persian (fa) باکو		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		2
4	French (fr) Bakou		2
5	Portuguese (pt) Bacu		2
6	Arabic (ar) باكو		1
7	Catalan (ca) Bakú		1
8	German (de) Baku		1
9	Basque (eu) Baku		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Baku		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