Cologne

Quality:

Cologne - most populous city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This city is the 69^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 88.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 134 references and 52 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6981^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4856^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 2823^rd most popular in all topics.

The 891^st most popular in AI.

The 69^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8221^st most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4272^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Cologne” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Cologne”, its content was written by 1121 registered users of English Wikipedia (4856^th place) and edited by 6641 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (891^st place).

Cologne is on the 116^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 69^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 13710 times in English Wikipedia (1335^th place) and cited 118164 times in all languages (1036^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #595 in December 2001
• Global: #197 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4128 in August 2014
• Global: #1714 in January 2016

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	German (de) Köln		93.4775
2	Latin (la) Colonia Agrippina		93.1062
3	English (en) Cologne		88.871
4	Portuguese (pt) Colônia (Alemanha)		83.3651
5	French (fr) Cologne		72.5088
6	Dutch (nl) Keulen		68.8873
7	Slovenian (sl) Köln		68.1404
8	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		66.5255
9	Japanese (ja) ケルン		64.619
10	Swedish (sv) Köln		63.0558

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cologne		17 028 122
2	German (de) Köln		16 301 500
3	Russian (ru) Кёльн		2 904 139
4	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		2 669 675
5	French (fr) Cologne		2 527 787
6	Italian (it) Colonia (Germania)		2 019 200
7	Polish (pl) Kolonia (Niemcy)		1 813 766
8	Japanese (ja) ケルン		1 343 756
9	Dutch (nl) Keulen		1 015 278
10	Portuguese (pt) Colônia (Alemanha)		803 136

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		76 507
2	German (de) Köln		38 606
3	Russian (ru) Кёльн		11 163
4	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		7 745
5	French (fr) Cologne		6 774
6	Polish (pl) Kolonia (Niemcy)		5 427
7	Italian (it) Colonia (Germania)		5 360
8	Japanese (ja) ケルン		4 837
9	Dutch (nl) Keulen		4 221
10	Chinese (zh) 科隆		3 837

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Köln		1 571
2	English (en) Cologne		1 121
3	French (fr) Cologne		388
4	Dutch (nl) Keulen		354
5	Italian (it) Colonia (Germania)		265
6	Russian (ru) Кёльн		259
7	Spanish (es) Colonia (Alemania)		202
8	Japanese (ja) ケルン		132
9	Polish (pl) Kolonia (Niemcy)		129
10	Hungarian (hu) Köln		122

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	Dutch (nl) Keulen		3
2	English (en) Cologne		2
3	Hebrew (he) קלן		2
4	Arabic (ar) كولونيا		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Köln		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Кьолн		1
7	Catalan (ca) Colònia (Alemanya)		1
8	Danish (da) Köln		1
9	German (de) Köln		1
10	French (fr) Cologne		1

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

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