Forbidden City

Quality:

Forbidden City - Chinese imperial palace in Beijing. This building is the 32^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 44^th most popular building in English Wikipedia. Article “Forbidden City” in English Wikipedia has 90.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 108 references and 19 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9018^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 6016^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 44^th most popular in buildings in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6194^th most popular in all topics.

The 4877^th most popular in AI.

The 32^nd most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7546^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6834^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Forbidden City” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 25 authors in all languages (6834^th place).

Since the creation of article “Forbidden City”, its content was written by 1057 registered users of English Wikipedia (6016^th place) and edited by 3638 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4877^th place).

Forbidden City is on the 44^th place in local ranking of buildings in English Wikipedia and on the 32^nd place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 1553 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10304 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #867 in March 2003
• Global: #887 in January 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #818 in August 2008
• Global: #977 in August 2008

There are 53 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	Hungarian (hu) Tiltott Város		99.4298
2	Catalan (ca) Ciutat Prohibida		96.653
3	Vietnamese (vi) Tử Cấm Thành		95.6626
4	Ukrainian (uk) Заборонене місто		95.5351
5	Malay (ms) Kota Larangan		90.5859
6	English (en) Forbidden City		90.1678
7	Portuguese (pt) Cidade Proibida		87.296
8	Russian (ru) Запретный город		83.9351
9	Romanian (ro) Orașul Interzis		77.3363
10	Spanish (es) Ciudad Prohibida		73.732

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Forbidden City		15 436 101
2	Chinese (zh) 故宫		3 748 957
3	German (de) Verbotene Stadt		2 294 107
4	Japanese (ja) 紫禁城		2 275 173
5	Spanish (es) Ciudad Prohibida		2 245 550
6	French (fr) Cité interdite		1 660 934
7	Russian (ru) Запретный город		1 657 541
8	Vietnamese (vi) Tử Cấm Thành		1 421 603
9	Italian (it) Città Proibita		975 975
10	Thai (th) พระราชวังต้องห้าม		815 849

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) Forbidden City		56 288
2	Chinese (zh) 故宫		9 747
3	Japanese (ja) 紫禁城		7 796
4	Russian (ru) Запретный город		7 478
5	German (de) Verbotene Stadt		6 424
6	Spanish (es) Ciudad Prohibida		4 795
7	French (fr) Cité interdite		4 663
8	Vietnamese (vi) Tử Cấm Thành		3 451
9	Italian (it) Città Proibita		2 982
10	Polish (pl) Zakazane Miasto		1 839

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Forbidden City		1 057
2	Chinese (zh) 故宫		299
3	German (de) Verbotene Stadt		259
4	French (fr) Cité interdite		225
5	Japanese (ja) 紫禁城		137
6	Italian (it) Città Proibita		135
7	Dutch (nl) Verboden Stad		123
8	Vietnamese (vi) Tử Cấm Thành		104
9	Russian (ru) Запретный город		102
10	Hebrew (he) העיר האסורה		95

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) Forbidden City		5
2	Japanese (ja) 紫禁城		4
3	Dutch (nl) Verboden Stad		2
4	Belarusian (be) Забаронены горад		1
5	German (de) Verbotene Stadt		1
6	Spanish (es) Ciudad Prohibida		1
7	Basque (eu) Hiri Debekatua		1
8	French (fr) Cité interdite		1
9	Hungarian (hu) Tiltott Város		1
10	Italian (it) Città Proibita		1

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

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