Ghost town

Quality:

Ghost town - city depopulated of inhabitants and that often stays practically intact. Article “Ghost town” in English Wikipedia has 77.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 94 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.6 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Ghost town” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ghost town”, its content was written by 868 registered users of English Wikipedia (9515^th place) and edited by 2361 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 40201 times in English Wikipedia (306^th place) and cited 109747 times in all languages (1254^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #835 in March 2002
• Global: #1052 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4021 in March 2011
• Global: #3879 in March 2011

There are 43 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) Ghost town		77.3838
2	Estonian (et) Kummituslinn		67.9981
3	Russian (ru) Покинутые населённые пункты		67.1013
4	German (de) Geisterstadt		51.2416
5	Greek (el) Πόλη φάντασμα		46.6782
6	Italian (it) Città fantasma		43.5179
7	Chinese (zh) 鬼鎮		39.1389
8	Czech (cs) Zaniklé sídlo		33.6497
9	Japanese (ja) ゴーストタウン		33.1633
10	Azerbaijani (az) Kabus şəhər		33.0127

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ghost town		9 361 088
2	Japanese (ja) ゴーストタウン		1 746 069
3	German (de) Geisterstadt		1 517 755
4	Russian (ru) Покинутые населённые пункты		1 430 999
5	Italian (it) Città fantasma		837 491
6	French (fr) Ville fantôme		733 348
7	Polish (pl) Wyludnione miasto		372 156
8	Portuguese (pt) Cidade-fantasma		353 262
9	Chinese (zh) 鬼鎮		310 759
10	Dutch (nl) Spookstad		165 939

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) Ghost town		21 615
2	Japanese (ja) ゴーストタウン		3 899
3	Russian (ru) Покинутые населённые пункты		3 376
4	German (de) Geisterstadt		1 830
5	Italian (it) Città fantasma		1 387
6	French (fr) Ville fantôme		1 005
7	Chinese (zh) 鬼鎮		855
8	Polish (pl) Wyludnione miasto		536
9	Portuguese (pt) Cidade-fantasma		350
10	Vietnamese (vi) Phố ma		317

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ghost town		868
2	German (de) Geisterstadt		198
3	Italian (it) Città fantasma		156
4	French (fr) Ville fantôme		149
5	Japanese (ja) ゴーストタウン		129
6	Russian (ru) Покинутые населённые пункты		110
7	Chinese (zh) 鬼鎮		83
8	Dutch (nl) Spookstad		66
9	Swedish (sv) Spökstad		44
10	Hebrew (he) עיר רפאים		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) Ghost town		3
2	Estonian (et) Kummituslinn		1
3	Basque (eu) Hiri mamu		1
4	Indonesian (id) Kota hantu		1
5	Korean (ko) 유령 도시		1
6	Dutch (nl) Spookstad		1
7	Arabic (ar) مدينة أشباح		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Kabus şəhər		0
9	Belarusian (be) Пакінуты горад		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Изоставен град		0

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

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