Ephesus

Quality:

Ephesus - ancient Greek city in Anatolia. This city is the 225^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 280^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Ephesus” in English Wikipedia has 89.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 104 references and 30 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 280^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8789^th most popular in AI.

The 225^th most popular in cities.

In June 2026 the article “Ephesus” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ephesus”, its content was written by 605 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2738 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8789^th place).

Ephesus is on the 280^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 225^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3012 times in English Wikipedia and cited 17893 times in all languages (9711^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1479 in September 2001
• Global: #611 in February 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5874 in February 2023
• Global: #6519 in February 2023

There are 52 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	Hindi (hi) इफिसुस		100
2	Finnish (fi) Efesos		98.0952
3	English (en) Ephesus		89.7684
4	Indonesian (id) Efesus (kota)		88.344
5	Russian (ru) Эфес (город)		80.9001
6	Slovenian (sl) Efez		80.2489
7	French (fr) Éphèse		72.9979
8	Vietnamese (vi) Ephesus		71.0272
9	Spanish (es) Éfeso		67.8651
10	Italian (it) Efeso		66.4711

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ephesus		9 901 065
2	Turkish (tr) Efes		2 543 740
3	Spanish (es) Éfeso		2 473 950
4	German (de) Ephesos		1 911 171
5	French (fr) Éphèse		1 481 674
6	Russian (ru) Эфес (город)		1 476 155
7	Italian (it) Efeso		1 131 537
8	Polish (pl) Efez		1 106 002
9	Portuguese (pt) Éfeso		1 103 785
10	Dutch (nl) Efeze		633 610

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) Ephesus		42 060
2	Turkish (tr) Efes		7 077
3	German (de) Ephesos		6 678
4	Russian (ru) Эфес (город)		6 628
5	Spanish (es) Éfeso		6 071
6	French (fr) Éphèse		4 465
7	Polish (pl) Efez		4 349
8	Italian (it) Efeso		3 791
9	Portuguese (pt) Éfeso		2 554
10	Chinese (zh) 以弗所		1 910

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ephesus		605
2	German (de) Ephesos		245
3	Turkish (tr) Efes		154
4	Russian (ru) Эфес (город)		136
5	Italian (it) Efeso		131
6	Dutch (nl) Efeze		131
7	Spanish (es) Éfeso		118
8	Polish (pl) Efez		83
9	Hungarian (hu) Epheszosz		75
10	Hebrew (he) אפסוס		51

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) Ephesus		3
2	Arabic (ar) أفسس		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Efes		2
4	French (fr) Éphèse		2
5	Indonesian (id) Efesus (kota)		2
6	Catalan (ca) Efes		1
7	Spanish (es) Éfeso		1
8	Georgian (ka) ეფესო		1
9	Polish (pl) Efez		1
10	Belarusian (be) Эфес (горад)		0

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

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