Colombo

Quality:

Colombo - largest city and de facto capital of Sri Lanka. This city is the 429^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 341^st most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Colombo” in English Wikipedia has 84.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 94 references and 38 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 341^st most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 429^th most popular in cities.

In June 2026 the article “Colombo” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Colombo”, its content was written by 746 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2514 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Colombo is on the 341^st place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 429^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 7591 times in English Wikipedia (2805^th place) and cited 25291 times in all languages (6673^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1079 in June 2002
• Global: #1320 in November 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2335 in April 2008
• Global: #4065 in April 2019

There are 54 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	Tamil (ta) கொழும்பு		88.4394
2	English (en) Colombo		84.6934
3	Ukrainian (uk) Коломбо		81.3283
4	Slovenian (sl) Kolombo		79.905
5	Spanish (es) Colombo		69.8014
6	Malay (ms) Colombo		65.1412
7	Vietnamese (vi) Colombo		63.9735
8	French (fr) Colombo		63.5435
9	Portuguese (pt) Colombo		61.8148
10	Swedish (sv) Colombo		52.8786

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Colombo		8 386 161
2	German (de) Colombo		1 031 465
3	Russian (ru) Коломбо		965 244
4	French (fr) Colombo		833 207
5	Spanish (es) Colombo		725 855
6	Japanese (ja) コロンボ		661 159
7	Polish (pl) Kolombo		370 208
8	Chinese (zh) 可倫坡		346 992
9	Portuguese (pt) Colombo		326 269
10	Italian (it) Colombo (Sri Lanka)		239 122

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) Colombo		26 363
2	Russian (ru) Коломбо		2 484
3	German (de) Colombo		2 327
4	Japanese (ja) コロンボ		2 019
5	French (fr) Colombo		1 746
6	Chinese (zh) 可倫坡		1 507
7	Spanish (es) Colombo		1 358
8	Italian (it) Colombo (Sri Lanka)		1 262
9	Polish (pl) Kolombo		860
10	Portuguese (pt) Colombo		655

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Colombo		746
2	German (de) Colombo		184
3	French (fr) Colombo		155
4	Italian (it) Colombo (Sri Lanka)		108
5	Russian (ru) Коломбо		87
6	Dutch (nl) Colombo (stad)		83
7	Spanish (es) Colombo		67
8	Chinese (zh) 可倫坡		64
9	Hebrew (he) קולומבו		58
10	Hungarian (hu) Colombo		54

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) Colombo		4
2	French (fr) Colombo		2
3	Belarusian (be) Каломба		1
4	Catalan (ca) Colombo		1
5	German (de) Colombo		1
6	Basque (eu) Kolonbo		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Colombo		1
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Colombo		1
9	Polish (pl) Kolombo		1
10	Slovenian (sl) Kolombo		1

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

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