Cape Town

Quality:

Cape Town - city in the Western Cape, South Africa. This city is the 112^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 101^st most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Cape Town” in English Wikipedia has 93.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 528 references and 57 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 6030^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3034^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 101^st most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5401^st most popular in all topics.

The 2799^th most popular in AI.

The 112^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7662^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5743^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5863^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Cape Town” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 27 authors in all languages (5863^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Cape Town”, its content was written by 1379 registered users of English Wikipedia (3034^th place) and edited by 4608 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2799^th place).

Cape Town is on the 101^st place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 112^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 14255 times in English Wikipedia (1308^th place) and cited 51140 times in all languages (3195^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #425 in October 2001
• Global: #385 in July 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1602 in June 2010
• Global: #917 in June 2010

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	English (en) Cape Town		93.316
2	Esperanto (eo) Kaburbo		93.1892
3	Armenian (hy) Քեյփթաուն		85.9769
4	French (fr) Le Cap		82.6741
5	Chinese (zh) 開普敦		80.7079
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Cape Town		80.1933
7	Basque (eu) Lurmutur Hiria		71.1021
8	Ukrainian (uk) Кейптаун		69.2123
9	German (de) Kapstadt		66.7294
10	Dutch (nl) Kaapstad		66.5925

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cape Town		19 384 142
2	German (de) Kapstadt		3 345 415
3	Russian (ru) Кейптаун		2 689 358
4	Spanish (es) Ciudad del Cabo		2 384 839
5	French (fr) Le Cap		1 844 606
6	Polish (pl) Kapsztad		1 484 461
7	Italian (it) Città del Capo		1 278 804
8	Japanese (ja) ケープタウン		1 064 478
9	Portuguese (pt) Cidade do Cabo		1 052 770
10	Dutch (nl) Kaapstad		782 955

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) Cape Town		71 513
2	Russian (ru) Кейптаун		9 671
3	German (de) Kapstadt		8 177
4	Spanish (es) Ciudad del Cabo		7 562
5	Polish (pl) Kapsztad		7 016
6	Italian (it) Città del Capo		4 687
7	French (fr) Le Cap		4 243
8	Japanese (ja) ケープタウン		3 432
9	Chinese (zh) 開普敦		3 375
10	Turkish (tr) Cape Town		2 671

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cape Town		1 379
2	German (de) Kapstadt		400
3	French (fr) Le Cap		251
4	Dutch (nl) Kaapstad		232
5	Italian (it) Città del Capo		192
6	Spanish (es) Ciudad del Cabo		143
7	Russian (ru) Кейптаун		138
8	Polish (pl) Kapsztad		99
9	Hungarian (hu) Fokváros		95
10	Japanese (ja) ケープタウン		91

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) Cape Town		5
2	French (fr) Le Cap		5
3	Japanese (ja) ケープタウン		2
4	Chinese (zh) 開普敦		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Keyptaun		1
6	Catalan (ca) Ciutat del Cap		1
7	German (de) Kapstadt		1
8	Spanish (es) Ciudad del Cabo		1
9	Basque (eu) Lurmutur Hiria		1
10	Indonesian (id) Cape Town		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