Boston

Quality:

Boston - capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States. This city is the 43^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 17^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Boston” in English Wikipedia has 94.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 395 references and 40 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1209^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 238^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 17^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1622^nd most popular in all topics.

The 750^th most popular in AI.

The 43^rd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2604^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 2648^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2895^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2955^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Boston” was edited by 17 authors in English Wikipedia (2648^th place) and written by 37 authors in all languages (2955^th place).

Since the creation of article “Boston”, its content was written by 2787 registered users of English Wikipedia (238^th place) and edited by 7049 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (750^th place).

Boston is on the 17^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 43^rd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 52546 times in English Wikipedia (215^th place) and cited 160419 times in all languages (716^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #44 in September 2001
• Global: #48 in April 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #583 in August 2010
• Global: #216 in April 2013

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	Arabic (ar) بوسطن		100
2	Korean (ko) 보스턴		98.0312
3	Spanish (es) Boston		96.1441
4	English (en) Boston		94.7279
5	German (de) Boston		92.7759
6	Vietnamese (vi) Boston		90.7999
7	Chinese (zh) 波士顿		89.4258
8	Portuguese (pt) Boston		87.413
9	Japanese (ja) ボストン		85.0329
10	Simple English (simple) Boston		83.8531

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Boston		40 268 978
2	Spanish (es) Boston		4 818 598
3	German (de) Boston		4 779 477
4	French (fr) Boston		3 139 919
5	Russian (ru) Бостон		3 099 148
6	Italian (it) Boston		2 479 143
7	Japanese (ja) ボストン		2 454 099
8	Portuguese (pt) Boston		1 868 553
9	Polish (pl) Boston		1 444 641
10	Chinese (zh) 波士顿		1 438 558

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) Boston		151 442
2	Spanish (es) Boston		11 702
3	Russian (ru) Бостон		10 816
4	German (de) Boston		9 289
5	Japanese (ja) ボストン		7 335
6	Chinese (zh) 波士顿		6 949
7	French (fr) Boston		6 124
8	Italian (it) Boston		5 955
9	Polish (pl) Boston		3 896
10	Portuguese (pt) Boston		3 698

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Boston		2 787
2	German (de) Boston		475
3	French (fr) Boston		429
4	Italian (it) Boston		275
5	Dutch (nl) Boston		211
6	Russian (ru) Бостон		209
7	Spanish (es) Boston		205
8	Japanese (ja) ボストン		181
9	Hebrew (he) בוסטון		159
10	Chinese (zh) 波士顿		159

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) Boston		17
2	Arabic (ar) بوسطن		5
3	Catalan (ca) Boston		2
4	Chinese (zh) 波士顿		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Boston		1
6	Czech (cs) Boston		1
7	German (de) Boston		1
8	Persian (fa) بوستون		1
9	French (fr) Boston		1
10	Hebrew (he) בוסטון		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