Direct-controlled municipality

Direct-controlled municipality - city classification used by several states for cities under direct government of the state. Article “Direct-controlled municipality” in English Wikipedia has 8.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.46 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Direct-controlled municipality”, its content was written by 114 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 424 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 963 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4327 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #17703 in March 2004
• Global: #7160 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #68790 in August 2010
• Global: #85111 in May 2008

There are 8 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	Chinese (zh) 直辖市		49.9784
2	Korean (ko) 직할시		35.5937
3	Spanish (es) Municipio bajo jurisdicción central		28.2377
4	Indonesian (id) Kotaraya		19.5033
5	English (en) Direct-controlled municipality		8.7005
6	Min Nan (zhminnan) Ti̍t-hat-chhī		5.1486
7	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố trực thuộc trung ương		5.1372
8	Japanese (ja) 直轄市		4.3145

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Direct-controlled municipality" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Chinese (zh) 直辖市		862 374
2	English (en) Direct-controlled municipality		438 175
3	Japanese (ja) 直轄市		202 881
4	Spanish (es) Municipio bajo jurisdicción central		172 661
5	Korean (ko) 직할시		77 440
6	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố trực thuộc trung ương		26 788
7	Indonesian (id) Kotaraya		11 784
8	Min Nan (zhminnan) Ti̍t-hat-chhī		6 067

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Direct-controlled municipality" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Chinese (zh) 直辖市		2 605
2	English (en) Direct-controlled municipality		1 801
3	Japanese (ja) 直轄市		1 181
4	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố trực thuộc trung ương		794
5	Spanish (es) Municipio bajo jurisdicción central		670
6	Korean (ko) 직할시		240
7	Indonesian (id) Kotaraya		88
8	Min Nan (zhminnan) Ti̍t-hat-chhī		21

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

Language versions of the article "Direct-controlled municipality" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 直辖市		191
2	English (en) Direct-controlled municipality		114
3	Japanese (ja) 直轄市		36
4	Korean (ko) 직할시		30
5	Spanish (es) Municipio bajo jurisdicción central		26
6	Min Nan (zhminnan) Ti̍t-hat-chhī		18
7	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố trực thuộc trung ương		6
8	Indonesian (id) Kotaraya		3

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

Language versions of the article "Direct-controlled municipality" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Direct-controlled municipality		0
2	Spanish (es) Municipio bajo jurisdicción central		0
3	Indonesian (id) Kotaraya		0
4	Japanese (ja) 直轄市		0
5	Korean (ko) 직할시		0
6	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố trực thuộc trung ương		0
7	Chinese (zh) 直辖市		0
8	Min Nan (zhminnan) Ti̍t-hat-chhī		0

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

Language versions of the article "Direct-controlled municipality" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 直辖市		2 465
2	English (en) Direct-controlled municipality		963
3	Japanese (ja) 直轄市		429
4	Min Nan (zhminnan) Ti̍t-hat-chhī		198
5	Spanish (es) Municipio bajo jurisdicción central		107
6	Indonesian (id) Kotaraya		96
7	Korean (ko) 직할시		45
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thành phố trực thuộc trung ương		24

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#	Language	Value
en	English Direct-controlled municipality
es	Spanish Municipio bajo jurisdicción central
id	Indonesian Kotaraya
ja	Japanese 直轄市
ko	Korean 직할시
vi	Vietnamese Thành phố trực thuộc trung ương
zh	Chinese 直辖市
zhminnan	Min Nan Ti̍t-hat-chhī

Best Rank

English: #68790 08.2010

Global: #85111 05.2008

Best Rank

English: #17703 03.2004

Global: #7160 02.2004

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