Des Moines, Iowa

Quality:

Des Moines - capital city of Iowa, United States. This city is the 456^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 249^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Des Moines, Iowa” in English Wikipedia has 90.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 140 references and 39 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 6556^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 249^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8827^th most popular in AI.

The 456^th most popular in cities.

In June 2025 the article “Des Moines, Iowa” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Des Moines, Iowa”, its content was written by 994 registered users of English Wikipedia (6556^th place) and edited by 2688 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8827^th place).

Des Moines is on the 249^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 456^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 7897 times in English Wikipedia (2583^rd place) and cited 20128 times in all languages (8238^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #388 in January 2002
• Global: #308 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6565 in February 2020
• Global: #9526 in February 2020

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, 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	English (en) Des Moines, Iowa		90.4427
2	Japanese (ja) デモイン (アイオワ州)		55.8701
3	German (de) Des Moines		48.8927
4	Catalan (ca) Des Moines		48.593
5	Finnish (fi) Des Moines		46.5499
6	Italian (it) Des Moines		43.1504
7	Chinese (zh) 德梅因		41.4237
8	Croatian (hr) Des Moines, Iowa		41.2728
9	French (fr) Des Moines (Iowa)		40.9939
10	Portuguese (pt) Des Moines		40.4369

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Des Moines, Iowa		9 931 179
2	German (de) Des Moines		676 624
3	Spanish (es) Des Moines		585 277
4	French (fr) Des Moines (Iowa)		498 134
5	Italian (it) Des Moines		369 581
6	Russian (ru) Де-Мойн		364 686
7	Portuguese (pt) Des Moines		226 322
8	Polish (pl) Des Moines		202 501
9	Japanese (ja) デモイン (アイオワ州)		158 812
10	Chinese (zh) 德梅因		121 724

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) Des Moines, Iowa		41 001
2	German (de) Des Moines		3 577
3	Spanish (es) Des Moines		2 429
4	Italian (it) Des Moines		2 411
5	French (fr) Des Moines (Iowa)		2 292
6	Russian (ru) Де-Мойн		1 954
7	Japanese (ja) デモイン (アイオワ州)		901
8	Portuguese (pt) Des Moines		827
9	Chinese (zh) 德梅因		802
10	Polish (pl) Des Moines		730

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Des Moines, Iowa		994
2	German (de) Des Moines		207
3	French (fr) Des Moines (Iowa)		166
4	Italian (it) Des Moines		104
5	Dutch (nl) Des Moines (Iowa)		100
6	Russian (ru) Де-Мойн		87
7	Spanish (es) Des Moines		73
8	Danish (da) Des Moines		56
9	Hebrew (he) דה מוין		53
10	Norwegian (no) Des Moines		53

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) Des Moines, Iowa		3
2	German (de) Des Moines		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) De-Moyn		1
4	Catalan (ca) Des Moines		1
5	Czech (cs) Des Moines		1
6	Greek (el) Ντε Μόιν (Άιοβα)		1
7	Hebrew (he) דה מוין		1
8	Urdu (ur) دی موین، آئیووا		1
9	Uzbek (uz) Des Moines (Iowa)		1
10	Arabic (ar) دي موين (آيوا)		0

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

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