Kiel

Kiel - German city, capital of Schleswig-Holstein. This city is the 422^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 895^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Kiel” in English Wikipedia has 72.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 51 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.82 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Kiel” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Kiel”, its content was written by 380 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3270 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5914^th place).

Kiel is on the 895^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 422^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 4997 times in English Wikipedia (4759^th place) and cited 41732 times in all languages (3921^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2845 in March 2004
• Global: #611 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #40222 in April 2015
• Global: #12363 in July 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, 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	German (de) Kiel		90.1918
2	English (en) Kiel		72.5315
3	Polish (pl) Kilonia		60.6612
4	Latin (la) Kielia		58.6772
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Kiel		56.4025
6	Swedish (sv) Kiel		46.5353
7	Hebrew (he) קיל		45.341
8	Danish (da) Kiel		43.5017
9	Ukrainian (uk) Кіль (місто)		43.1736
10	French (fr) Kiel		42.7178

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Kiel" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Kiel		6 250 630
2	English (en) Kiel		3 470 942
3	Russian (ru) Киль (город)		687 562
4	Polish (pl) Kilonia		536 904
5	Spanish (es) Kiel		516 213
6	French (fr) Kiel		503 459
7	Italian (it) Kiel		465 871
8	Dutch (nl) Kiel (Duitsland)		294 242
9	Japanese (ja) キール (ドイツ)		289 854
10	Swedish (sv) Kiel		240 082

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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 "Kiel" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Kiel		18 296
2	English (en) Kiel		16 809
3	Russian (ru) Киль (город)		4 210
4	Italian (it) Kiel		2 759
5	French (fr) Kiel		2 607
6	Spanish (es) Kiel		2 568
7	Polish (pl) Kilonia		2 186
8	Japanese (ja) キール (ドイツ)		1 666
9	Dutch (nl) Kiel (Duitsland)		1 301
10	Swedish (sv) Kiel		1 247

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Kiel		1 002
2	English (en) Kiel		380
3	French (fr) Kiel		190
4	Italian (it) Kiel		118
5	Dutch (nl) Kiel (Duitsland)		105
6	Russian (ru) Киль (город)		105
7	Norwegian (no) Kiel		102
8	Danish (da) Kiel		81
9	Spanish (es) Kiel		74
10	Hungarian (hu) Kiel		68

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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 "Kiel" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Kiel		3
2	English (en) Kiel		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Kil		1
4	Catalan (ca) Kiel		1
5	Danish (da) Kiel		1
6	Finnish (fi) Kiel		1
7	French (fr) Kiel		1
8	Hebrew (he) קיל		1
9	Indonesian (id) Kiel		1
10	Japanese (ja) キール (ドイツ)		1

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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 "Kiel" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Kiel		11 222
2	English (en) Kiel		4 997
3	French (fr) Kiel		2 914
4	Russian (ru) Киль (город)		1 880
5	Italian (it) Kiel		1 584
6	Polish (pl) Kilonia		1 494
7	Spanish (es) Kiel		1 471
8	Ukrainian (uk) Кіль (місто)		1 265
9	Danish (da) Kiel		1 167
10	Hebrew (he) קיל		969

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic كيل
az	Azerbaijani Kil
be	Belarusian Кіль (горад)
bg	Bulgarian Кил (град)
ca	Catalan Kiel
cs	Czech Kiel
da	Danish Kiel
de	German Kiel
el	Greek Κίελο
en	English Kiel
eo	Esperanto Kilo (urbo)
es	Spanish Kiel
et	Estonian Kiel
eu	Basque Kiel
fa	Persian کیل
fi	Finnish Kiel
fr	French Kiel
gl	Galician Kiel
he	Hebrew קיל
hi	Hindi काइल
hr	Croatian Kiel
hu	Hungarian Kiel
hy	Armenian Քիլ
id	Indonesian Kiel
it	Italian Kiel
ja	Japanese キール (ドイツ)
ka	Georgian კილი
ko	Korean 킬 (슐레스비히홀슈타인주)
la	Latin Kielia
lt	Lithuanian Kylis
ms	Malay Kiel
nl	Dutch Kiel (Duitsland)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Kiel
no	Norwegian Kiel
pl	Polish Kilonia
pt	Portuguese Quiel
ro	Romanian Kiel
ru	Russian Киль (город)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Kiel
simple	Simple English Kiel
sk	Slovak Kiel
sl	Slovenian Kiel
sr	Serbian Кил
sv	Swedish Kiel
th	Thai คีล
tr	Turkish Kiel
uk	Ukrainian Кіль (місто)
ur	Urdu کیل (جرمنی)
uz	Uzbek Kiel
vi	Vietnamese Kiel
vo	Volapük Kiel
zh	Chinese 基尔
zhminnan	Min Nan Kiel

Best Rank

English: #40222 04.2015

Global: #12363 07.2008

Best Rank

English: #2845 03.2004

Global: #611 09.2002

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