Istanbul

Quality:

Istanbul - city in Turkey located at the Bosporus Strait. This city is the 13th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 22nd most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article "Istanbul" in English Wikipedia has 98.2 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 482 references and 37 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
English Wikipedia:
The 1470th most popular in English Wikipedia.
The 714th most editable in English Wikipedia.
The 22nd most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 544th most popular in all topics.
The 188th most popular in AI.
The 13th most popular in cities.
Achievements in the last month:
English Wikipedia:
The 2750th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 1155th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 963rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Istanbul" was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 74 authors in all languages (963rd place).

Since the creation of article "Istanbul", its content was written by 2065 registered users of English Wikipedia (714th place) and edited by 10256 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (188th place).

Istanbul is on the 22nd place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 13th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 25393 times in English Wikipedia (588th place) and cited 178383 times in all languages (612th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #241 in July 2001
  • Global: #53 in June 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #945 in February 2012
  • Global: #315 in March 2013

There are 55 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 August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Portuguese (pt)
Istambul
100
2Hungarian (hu)
Isztambul
100
3Serbian (sr)
Истанбул
100
4Vietnamese (vi)
Istanbul
100
5Georgian (ka)
სტამბოლი
100
6Slovenian (sl)
Carigrad
100
7Armenian (hy)
Ստամբուլ
100
8Urdu (ur)
استنبول
100
9Esperanto (eo)
Istanbulo
100
10English (en)
Istanbul
98.1665
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Istanbul" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Istanbul
34 869 419
2Turkish (tr)
İstanbul
12 643 046
3German (de)
Istanbul
9 869 366
4Russian (ru)
Стамбул
8 804 877
5Spanish (es)
Estambul
8 321 506
6French (fr)
Istanbul
5 131 710
7Italian (it)
Istanbul
4 779 238
8Arabic (ar)
إسطنبول
3 537 826
9Polish (pl)
Stambuł
3 137 398
10Portuguese (pt)
Istambul
2 690 981
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Istanbul" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Istanbul
163 857
2Russian (ru)
Стамбул
42 715
3Turkish (tr)
İstanbul
34 581
4Spanish (es)
Estambul
29 943
5German (de)
Istanbul
24 183
6Polish (pl)
Stambuł
18 350
7Italian (it)
Istanbul
18 196
8French (fr)
Istanbul
16 251
9Persian (fa)
استانبول
13 839
10Arabic (ar)
إسطنبول
12 848
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Istanbul" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Istanbul
2 065
2German (de)
Istanbul
966
3Turkish (tr)
İstanbul
917
4French (fr)
Istanbul
570
5Russian (ru)
Стамбул
436
6Italian (it)
Istanbul
408
7Dutch (nl)
Istanbul
359
8Spanish (es)
Estambul
339
9Persian (fa)
استانبول
280
10Polish (pl)
Stambuł
220
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Istanbul" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
Стамбул
9
2English (en)
Istanbul
8
3Italian (it)
Istanbul
6
4Turkish (tr)
İstanbul
6
5German (de)
Istanbul
4
6Georgian (ka)
სტამბოლი
4
7Dutch (nl)
Istanbul
4
8Catalan (ca)
Istanbul
3
9Ukrainian (uk)
Стамбул
3
10Arabic (ar)
إسطنبول
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Istanbul" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Istanbul
25 393
2Turkish (tr)
İstanbul
22 782
3German (de)
Istanbul
11 231
4Russian (ru)
Стамбул
9 029
5Italian (it)
Istanbul
8 600
6French (fr)
Istanbul
7 797
7Arabic (ar)
إسطنبول
6 170
8Greek (el)
Κωνσταντινούπολη
5 765
9Spanish (es)
Estambul
5 525
10Polish (pl)
Stambuł
5 142
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
إسطنبول
azAzerbaijani
İstanbul
beBelarusian
Стамбул
bgBulgarian
Истанбул
caCatalan
Istanbul
csCzech
Istanbul
daDanish
Istanbul
deGerman
Istanbul
elGreek
Κωνσταντινούπολη
enEnglish
Istanbul
eoEsperanto
Istanbulo
esSpanish
Estambul
etEstonian
İstanbul
euBasque
Istanbul
faPersian
استانبول
fiFinnish
Istanbul
frFrench
Istanbul
glGalician
Istambul
heHebrew
איסטנבול
hiHindi
इस्तांबुल
hrCroatian
Istanbul
huHungarian
Isztambul
hyArmenian
Ստամբուլ
idIndonesian
Istanbul
itItalian
Istanbul
jaJapanese
イスタンブール
kaGeorgian
სტამბოლი
kkKazakh
Ыстанбұл
koKorean
이스탄불
laLatin
Constantinopolis
ltLithuanian
Stambulas
msMalay
Istanbul
nlDutch
Istanbul
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Istanbul
noNorwegian
Istanbul
plPolish
Stambuł
ptPortuguese
Istambul
roRomanian
Istanbul
ruRussian
Стамбул
shSerbo-Croatian
Istanbul
simpleSimple English
Istanbul
skSlovak
Istanbul
slSlovenian
Carigrad
srSerbian
Истанбул
svSwedish
Istanbul
taTamil
இசுதான்புல்
thThai
อิสตันบูล
trTurkish
İstanbul
ukUkrainian
Стамбул
urUrdu
استنبول
uzUzbek
Istanbul
viVietnamese
Istanbul
voVolapük
İstanbul
zhChinese
伊斯坦堡
zhminnanMin Nan
İstanbul

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#945
02.2012
Global:
#315
03.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#241
07.2001
Global:
#53
06.2009

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Istanbul from Wikipedia articles about Constantinople, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Ankara and List of European cities by population within city limits. Whereas reading the article about Istanbul people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Turkey, Constantinople, Hagia Sophia, Byzantium and Bosporus Strait.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Istanbul
zhminnan: İstanbul

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