Cologne

Quality:

Cologne - most populous city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This city is the 68^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 116^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Cologne” in English Wikipedia has 88.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 134 references and 56 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7071^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4784^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 116^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2681^st most popular in all topics.

The 899^th most popular in AI.

The 68^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9804^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 9865^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4586^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5612^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Cologne” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia (9865^th place) and written by 27 authors in all languages (5612^th place).

Since the creation of article “Cologne”, its content was written by 1159 registered users of English Wikipedia (4784^th place) and edited by 6703 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (899^th place).

Cologne is on the 116^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 68^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 14195 times in English Wikipedia (1315^th place) and cited 123016 times in all languages (1011^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #595 in December 2001
• Global: #198 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4160 in August 2014
• Global: #1214 in July 2008

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	Latin (la) Colonia Agrippina		93.1035
2	German (de) Köln		88.3969
3	English (en) Cologne		88.2804
4	Portuguese (pt) Colônia (Alemanha)		83.1629
5	French (fr) Cologne		73.2641
6	Dutch (nl) Keulen		69.1008
7	Slovenian (sl) Köln		67.8277
8	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		66.0352
9	Japanese (ja) ケルン		64.1475
10	Swedish (sv) Köln		63.1345

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cologne		17 812 072
2	German (de) Köln		17 597 203
3	Russian (ru) Кёльн		3 225 126
4	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		2 762 151
5	French (fr) Cologne		2 638 738
6	Italian (it) Colonia (Germania)		2 095 295
7	Dutch (nl) Keulen		1 886 055
8	Polish (pl) Kolonia (Niemcy)		1 884 184
9	Japanese (ja) ケルン		1 396 336
10	Portuguese (pt) Colônia (Alemanha)		833 873

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) Cologne		60 663
2	German (de) Köln		38 756
3	Russian (ru) Кёльн		10 298
4	French (fr) Cologne		6 542
5	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		6 176
6	Italian (it) Colonia (Germania)		5 277
7	Polish (pl) Kolonia (Niemcy)		5 054
8	Japanese (ja) ケルン		3 628
9	Chinese (zh) 科隆		3 461
10	Dutch (nl) Keulen		3 408

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Köln		1 594
2	English (en) Cologne		1 159
3	French (fr) Cologne		401
4	Dutch (nl) Keulen		360
5	Italian (it) Colonia (Germania)		270
6	Russian (ru) Кёльн		261
7	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		208
8	Japanese (ja) ケルン		132
9	Polish (pl) Kolonia (Niemcy)		131
10	Swedish (sv) Köln		124

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) Cologne		8
2	German (de) Köln		5
3	French (fr) Cologne		3
4	Hungarian (hu) Köln		2
5	Arabic (ar) كولونيا		1
6	Catalan (ca) Colònia (Alemanya)		1
7	Estonian (et) Köln		1
8	Persian (fa) کلن		1
9	Dutch (nl) Keulen		1
10	Norwegian (no) Köln		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 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