Des Moines, Iowa

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Des Moines - capital city of the U.S. state of Iowa and seat of Polk County. This city is the 462^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 253^rd most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Des Moines, Iowa” in English Wikipedia has 90.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 142 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 6531^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 253^rd most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9219^th most popular in AI.

The 462^nd most popular in cities.

In June 2026 the article “Des Moines, Iowa” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Des Moines, Iowa”, its content was written by 1022 registered users of English Wikipedia (6531^st place) and edited by 2674 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9219^th place).

Des Moines is on the 253^rd place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 462^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 8177 times in English Wikipedia (2566^th place) and cited 21048 times in all languages (8188^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #388 in January 2002
• Global: #306 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6526 in February 2020
• Global: #9391 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, 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) Des Moines, Iowa		90.5878
2	Japanese (ja) デモイン (アイオワ州)		55.4904
3	German (de) Des Moines		49.9455
4	Finnish (fi) Des Moines		46.5564
5	Catalan (ca) Des Moines		46.2608
6	Italian (it) Des Moines		42.895
7	Chinese (zh) 德梅因		41.368
8	Croatian (hr) Des Moines, Iowa		41.2616
9	French (fr) Des Moines (Iowa)		40.9263
10	Greek (el) Ντε Μόιν (Άιοβα)		39.3525

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Des Moines, Iowa		10 428 646
2	German (de) Des Moines		710 970
3	Spanish (es) Des Moines		611 136
4	French (fr) Des Moines (Iowa)		524 873
5	Russian (ru) Де-Мойн		397 254
6	Italian (it) Des Moines		390 974
7	Portuguese (pt) Des Moines		234 953
8	Polish (pl) Des Moines		213 274
9	Japanese (ja) デモイン (アイオワ州)		167 746
10	Chinese (zh) 德梅因		130 072

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		34 835
2	German (de) Des Moines		2 295
3	Spanish (es) Des Moines		1 942
4	French (fr) Des Moines (Iowa)		1 836
5	Russian (ru) Де-Мойн		1 689
6	Italian (it) Des Moines		1 642
7	Polish (pl) Des Moines		767
8	Japanese (ja) デモイン (アイオワ州)		655
9	Portuguese (pt) Des Moines		621
10	Chinese (zh) 德梅因		616

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		1 022
2	German (de) Des Moines		212
3	French (fr) Des Moines (Iowa)		167
4	Italian (it) Des Moines		106
5	Dutch (nl) Des Moines (Iowa)		100
6	Russian (ru) Де-Мойн		88
7	Spanish (es) Des Moines		73
8	Danish (da) Des Moines		56
9	Hebrew (he) דה מוין		54
10	Vietnamese (vi) Des Moines, Iowa		43

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		2
2	Russian (ru) Де-Мойн		2
3	Czech (cs) Des Moines		1
4	Basque (eu) Des Moines		1
5	Norwegian (no) Des Moines		1
6	Polish (pl) Des Moines		1
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Des Moines, Iowa		1
8	Arabic (ar) دي موين (آيوا)		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) De-Moyn		0
10	Belarusian (be) Дэ-Мойн		0

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

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