Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston - capital city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and seat of Kanawha County. This city is the 1183^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 640^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Charleston, West Virginia” in English Wikipedia has 87.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 109 references and 42 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.

In June 2026 the article “Charleston, West Virginia” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Charleston, West Virginia”, its content was written by 621 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1701 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Charleston is on the 640^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 1183^rd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3480 times in English Wikipedia (8557^th place) and cited 8809 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6447 in June 2015
• Global: #616 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18128 in December 2025
• Global: #34546 in December 2025

There are 50 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) Charleston, West Virginia		87.7282
2	German (de) Charleston (West Virginia)		60.4249
3	Finnish (fi) Charleston (Länsi-Virginia)		48.3386
4	Vietnamese (vi) Charleston, West Virginia		40.984
5	Czech (cs) Charleston (Západní Virginie)		38.479
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Charleston i Vest-Virginia		37.5467
7	Chinese (zh) 查尔斯顿 (西弗吉尼亚州)		37.1123
8	Simple English (simple) Charleston, West Virginia		35.8305
9	Spanish (es) Charleston (Virginia Occidental)		35.2335
10	Greek (el) Τσάρλστον (Δυτική Βιρτζίνια)		35.1658

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Charleston, West Virginia" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Charleston, West Virginia		5 071 193
2	German (de) Charleston (West Virginia)		209 425
3	Russian (ru) Чарлстон (Западная Виргиния)		162 039
4	Spanish (es) Charleston (Virginia Occidental)		125 257
5	Italian (it) Charleston (Virginia Occidentale)		106 440
6	French (fr) Charleston (Virginie-Occidentale)		101 876
7	Japanese (ja) チャールストン (ウェストバージニア州)		87 272
8	Polish (pl) Charleston (Wirginia Zachodnia)		69 942
9	Portuguese (pt) Charleston (Virgínia Ocidental)		60 602
10	Chinese (zh) 查尔斯顿 (西弗吉尼亚州)		43 909

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Charleston, West Virginia" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Charleston, West Virginia		20 818
2	German (de) Charleston (West Virginia)		745
3	Russian (ru) Чарлстон (Западная Виргиния)		712
4	Spanish (es) Charleston (Virginia Occidental)		545
5	Italian (it) Charleston (Virginia Occidentale)		477
6	French (fr) Charleston (Virginie-Occidentale)		446
7	Polish (pl) Charleston (Wirginia Zachodnia)		359
8	Japanese (ja) チャールストン (ウェストバージニア州)		310
9	Chinese (zh) 查尔斯顿 (西弗吉尼亚州)		306
10	Portuguese (pt) Charleston (Virgínia Ocidental)		199

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

Language versions of the article "Charleston, West Virginia" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Charleston, West Virginia		621
2	German (de) Charleston (West Virginia)		137
3	French (fr) Charleston (Virginie-Occidentale)		97
4	Italian (it) Charleston (Virginia Occidentale)		70
5	Dutch (nl) Charleston (West Virginia)		60
6	Russian (ru) Чарлстон (Западная Виргиния)		57
7	Danish (da) Charleston (West Virginia)		48
8	Spanish (es) Charleston (Virginia Occidental)		40
9	Hebrew (he) צ'ארלסטון (וירג'יניה המערבית)		38
10	Latin (la) Carolopolis (Virginia Occidentalis)		35

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

Language versions of the article "Charleston, West Virginia" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Charleston, West Virginia		5
2	Arabic (ar) تشارلستون (فرجينيا الغربية)		1
3	Catalan (ca) Charleston		1
4	Polish (pl) Charleston (Wirginia Zachodnia)		1
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Charleston, West Virginia		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Çarlston (Qərbi Virciniya)		0
7	Belarusian (be) Чарлстан (Заходняя Віргінія)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Чарлстън (Западна Вирджиния)		0
9	Czech (cs) Charleston (Západní Virginie)		0
10	Danish (da) Charleston (West Virginia)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Charleston, West Virginia" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Charleston, West Virginia		3 480
2	Arabic (ar) تشارلستون (فرجينيا الغربية)		451
3	French (fr) Charleston (Virginie-Occidentale)		328
4	Italian (it) Charleston (Virginia Occidentale)		320
5	Persian (fa) چارلستون (آرکانزاس)		302
6	German (de) Charleston (West Virginia)		263
7	Russian (ru) Чарлстон (Западная Виргиния)		252
8	Japanese (ja) チャールストン (ウェストバージニア州)		223
9	Portuguese (pt) Charleston (Virgínia Ocidental)		204
10	Hungarian (hu) Charleston (Nyugat-Virginia)		194

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تشارلستون (فرجينيا الغربية)
az	Azerbaijani Çarlston (Qərbi Virciniya)
be	Belarusian Чарлстан (Заходняя Віргінія)
bg	Bulgarian Чарлстън (Западна Вирджиния)
ca	Catalan Charleston
cs	Czech Charleston (Západní Virginie)
da	Danish Charleston (West Virginia)
de	German Charleston (West Virginia)
el	Greek Τσάρλστον (Δυτική Βιρτζίνια)
en	English Charleston, West Virginia
eo	Esperanto Charleston (Okcidenta Virginio)
es	Spanish Charleston (Virginia Occidental)
et	Estonian Charleston (Lääne-Virginia)
eu	Basque Charleston (Mendebaldeko Virginia)
fa	Persian چارلستون (آرکانزاس)
fi	Finnish Charleston (Länsi-Virginia)
fr	French Charleston (Virginie-Occidentale)
gl	Galician Charleston, Virxinia Occidental
he	Hebrew צ'ארלסטון (וירג'יניה המערבית)
hu	Hungarian Charleston (Nyugat-Virginia)
hy	Armenian Չարլսթոն (Արևմտյան Վիրջինիա)
id	Indonesian Charleston, Virginia Barat
it	Italian Charleston (Virginia Occidentale)
ja	Japanese チャールストン (ウェストバージニア州)
ka	Georgian ჩარლსტონი (დასავლეთი ვირჯინია)
ko	Korean 찰스턴 (웨스트버지니아주)
la	Latin Carolopolis (Virginia Occidentalis)
lt	Lithuanian Čarlstonas (Vakarų Virdžinija)
ms	Malay Charleston, Virginia Barat
nl	Dutch Charleston (West Virginia)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Charleston i Vest-Virginia
no	Norwegian Charleston (Vest-Virginia)
pl	Polish Charleston (Wirginia Zachodnia)
pt	Portuguese Charleston (Virgínia Ocidental)
ro	Romanian Charleston, Virginia de Vest
ru	Russian Чарлстон (Западная Виргиния)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Charleston, West Virginia
simple	Simple English Charleston, West Virginia
sk	Slovak Charleston (Západná Virgínia)
sr	Serbian Чарлстон (Западна Вирџинија)
sv	Swedish Charleston, West Virginia
ta	Tamil சார்ல்ஸ்டன் (மேற்கு வேர்ஜினியா)
th	Thai ชาร์ลสตัน (รัฐเวสต์เวอร์จิเนีย)
tr	Turkish Charleston, Batı Virginia
uk	Ukrainian Чарлстон (Західна Вірджинія)
ur	Urdu چارلسٹن، مغربی ورجینیا
vi	Vietnamese Charleston, West Virginia
vo	Volapük Charleston (Vesüda⸗Virginän)
zh	Chinese 查尔斯顿 (西弗吉尼亚州)
zhminnan	Min Nan Charleston (West Virginia)

Best Rank

English: #18128 12.2025

Global: #34546 12.2025

Best Rank

English: #6447 06.2015

Global: #616 02.2009

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