Basel

Quality:

Basel - city on the Rhine in Switzerland. This city is the 211^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 287^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Basel” in English Wikipedia has 92.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 225 references and 54 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 287^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9716^th most popular in all topics.

The 3541^st most popular in AI.

The 211^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6293^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Basel” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 26 authors in all languages (6293^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Basel”, its content was written by 680 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 4165 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3541^st place).

Basel is on the 287^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 211^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 7721 times in English Wikipedia (2651^st place) and cited 64356 times in all languages (2538^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1070 in February 2004
• Global: #281 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4654 in September 2014
• Global: #2355 in May 2025

There are 54 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	German (de) Basel		93.7822
2	English (en) Basel		92.8052
3	Chinese (zh) 巴塞尔		87.2243
4	Ukrainian (uk) Базель		81.5436
5	French (fr) Bâle		76.4649
6	Slovenian (sl) Basel		73.5594
7	Czech (cs) Basilej		70.2219
8	Swedish (sv) Basel		66.9323
9	Italian (it) Basilea		59.6104
10	Latin (la) Basilea		58.8391

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basel		8 858 697
2	German (de) Basel		5 279 326
3	French (fr) Bâle		2 310 348
4	Spanish (es) Basilea		1 860 700
5	Italian (it) Basilea		1 573 034
6	Russian (ru) Базель		1 060 559
7	Polish (pl) Bazylea		952 312
8	Japanese (ja) バーゼル		805 747
9	Portuguese (pt) Basileia		632 564
10	Dutch (nl) Bazel (Zwitserland)		500 160

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) Basel		39 161
2	German (de) Basel		17 624
3	French (fr) Bâle		8 240
4	Russian (ru) Базель		6 028
5	Spanish (es) Basilea		5 617
6	Italian (it) Basilea		5 180
7	Polish (pl) Bazylea		3 937
8	Dutch (nl) Bazel (Zwitserland)		2 845
9	Chinese (zh) 巴塞尔		2 750
10	Japanese (ja) バーゼル		2 594

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Basel		907
2	English (en) Basel		680
3	French (fr) Bâle		409
4	Italian (it) Basilea		220
5	Dutch (nl) Bazel (Zwitserland)		170
6	Russian (ru) Базель		139
7	Hebrew (he) בזל		120
8	Spanish (es) Basilea		117
9	Polish (pl) Bazylea		103
10	Hungarian (hu) Bázel		81

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	French (fr) Bâle		7
2	English (en) Basel		6
3	German (de) Basel		4
4	Chinese (zh) 巴塞尔		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bazel		1
6	Catalan (ca) Basilea		1
7	Hebrew (he) בזל		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Bázel		1
9	Russian (ru) Базель		1
10	Thai (th) บาเซิล		1

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

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