Baku

Quality:

Baku - capital of Azerbaijan. This city is the 117^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 172^nd most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Baku” in English Wikipedia has 92.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 193 references and 41 sections.

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 5272^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 172^nd most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5637^th most popular in all topics.

The 1546^th most popular in AI.

The 117^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7825^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5312^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4335^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Baku” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 31 authors in all languages (4335^th place).

Since the creation of article “Baku”, its content was written by 1084 registered users of English Wikipedia (5272^nd place) and edited by 5492 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1546^th place).

Baku is on the 172^nd place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 117^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 9809 times in English Wikipedia (2022^nd place) and cited 93720 times in all languages (1491^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #850 in November 2001
• Global: #72 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #902 in June 2016
• Global: #323 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, 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	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		100
2	Uzbek (uz) Boku		100
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Baku		100
4	Arabic (ar) باكو		96.7919
5	Russian (ru) Баку		95
6	English (en) Baku		92.4649
7	Slovenian (sl) Baku		89.6547
8	Turkish (tr) Bakü		86.9769
9	Spanish (es) Bakú		86.8491
10	Georgian (ka) ბაქო		80.2018

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Baku		13 258 381
2	Russian (ru) Баку		5 758 585
3	German (de) Baku		2 821 153
4	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		1 880 998
5	Spanish (es) Bakú		1 733 160
6	Italian (it) Baku		1 656 088
7	Polish (pl) Baku		1 267 883
8	French (fr) Bakou		1 254 005
9	Persian (fa) باکو		1 065 220
10	Turkish (tr) Bakü		945 616

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		79 007
2	Russian (ru) Баку		21 371
3	German (de) Baku		6 678
4	Spanish (es) Bakú		5 700
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		5 657
6	Polish (pl) Baku		5 256
7	Persian (fa) باکو		4 604
8	Italian (it) Baku		4 223
9	French (fr) Bakou		4 130
10	Turkish (tr) Bakü		3 774

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Baku		1 084
2	Russian (ru) Баку		443
3	German (de) Baku		361
4	French (fr) Bakou		275
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		250
6	Italian (it) Baku		240
7	Dutch (nl) Bakoe		199
8	Turkish (tr) Bakü		195
9	Spanish (es) Bakú		168
10	Persian (fa) باکو		164

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		7
2	Azerbaijani (az) Bakı		4
3	Hebrew (he) באקו		3
4	Russian (ru) Баку		3
5	German (de) Baku		2
6	Persian (fa) باکو		2
7	French (fr) Bakou		2
8	Catalan (ca) Bakú		1
9	Czech (cs) Baku		1
10	Spanish (es) Bakú		1

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

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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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information