Brussels

Quality:

Brussels-Capital Region - federal region of Belgium including the City of Brussels. This city is the 163^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 96^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Brussels” in English Wikipedia has 93.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 431 references and 67 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5599^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3273^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 96^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7482^nd most popular in all topics.

The 4087^th most popular in AI.

The 163^rd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9249^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 4809^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9932^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Brussels” was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (4809^th place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Brussels”, its content was written by 1338 registered users of English Wikipedia (3273^rd place) and edited by 3937 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4087^th place).

Brussels-Capital Region is on the 96^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 163^rd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 22429 times in English Wikipedia (727^th place) and cited 63667 times in all languages (2659^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #212 in March 2016
• Global: #330 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #184 in March 2016
• Global: #307 in March 2016

There are 51 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	English (en) Brussels		93.8094
2	Indonesian (id) Brussel		89.9671
3	Dutch (nl) Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest		75.0583
4	Slovenian (sl) Bruselj		73.5212
5	German (de) Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt		73.4893
6	Portuguese (pt) Bruxelas		72.1034
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Regija glavnog grada Bruxellesa		67.5635
8	Tamil (ta) பிரசெல்சு		66.9549
9	Vietnamese (vi) Bruxelles		63.5301
10	Finnish (fi) Bryssel		62.3226

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brussels		20 170 087
2	Portuguese (pt) Bruxelas		1 895 118
3	French (fr) Région de Bruxelles-Capitale		1 814 641
4	Japanese (ja) ブリュッセル		1 696 034
5	Dutch (nl) Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest		1 275 291
6	Turkish (tr) Brüksel		839 831
7	German (de) Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt		753 606
8	Arabic (ar) بروكسل		747 504
9	Spanish (es) Región de Bruselas-Capital		656 556
10	Persian (fa) بروکسل		508 206

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) Brussels		63 061
2	Japanese (ja) ブリュッセル		6 684
3	French (fr) Région de Bruxelles-Capitale		5 341
4	Portuguese (pt) Bruxelas		3 381
5	German (de) Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt		2 707
6	Dutch (nl) Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest		2 625
7	Persian (fa) بروکسل		2 521
8	Turkish (tr) Brüksel		1 685
9	Spanish (es) Región de Bruselas-Capital		1 588
10	Russian (ru) Брюссельский столичный регион		1 191

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Brussels		1 338
2	French (fr) Région de Bruxelles-Capitale		354
3	Dutch (nl) Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest		304
4	German (de) Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt		186
5	Japanese (ja) ブリュッセル		151
6	Portuguese (pt) Bruxelas		126
7	Finnish (fi) Bryssel		104
8	Danish (da) Bruxelles		102
9	Turkish (tr) Brüksel		102
10	Russian (ru) Брюссельский столичный регион		101

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) Brussels		11
2	Arabic (ar) بروكسل		1
3	Catalan (ca) Regió de Brussel·les-Capital		1
4	Basque (eu) Brusela-Hiriburua eskualdea		1
5	Persian (fa) بروکسل		1
6	Finnish (fi) Bryssel		1
7	French (fr) Région de Bruxelles-Capitale		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Brüsszel fővárosi régió		1
9	Japanese (ja) ブリュッセル		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Brüssel Paytaxt Bölgəsi		0

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 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