Kim Il Sung University

Kim Il-sung University - first university built in North Korea. This university is the 388^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 741^st most popular university in English Wikipedia. Article “Kim Il Sung University” in English Wikipedia has 63.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 37 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.33 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Kim Il Sung University” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Kim Il Sung University”, its content was written by 170 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 730 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Kim Il-sung University is on the 741^st place in local ranking of universities in English Wikipedia and on the 388^th place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

The article is cited 250 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1714 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #21167 in December 2013
• Global: #6102 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #13151 in April 2020
• Global: #13996 in April 2020

There are 39 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	Malay (ms) Universiti Kim Il-sung		83.3467
2	English (en) Kim Il Sung University		63.2105
3	Thai (th) มหาวิทยาลัยคิม อิล-ซ็อง		54.0674
4	Vietnamese (vi) Đại học Tổng hợp Kim Nhật Thành		45.8623
5	Turkish (tr) Kim İl-sung Üniversitesi		43.8116
6	Chinese (zh) 金日成综合大学		39.6007
7	Korean (ko) 김일성종합대학		36.9169
8	Serbian (sr) Универзитет Ким Илсунг		36.0952
9	Bulgarian (bg) Университет „Ким Ир Сен“		32.4497
10	Hebrew (he) אוניברסיטת קים איל-סונג		28.2404

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Kim Il Sung University" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kim Il Sung University		1 429 383
2	Japanese (ja) 金日成総合大学		443 330
3	Chinese (zh) 金日成综合大学		370 852
4	Russian (ru) Университет имени Ким Ир Сена		240 358
5	Korean (ko) 김일성종합대학		150 668
6	German (de) Kim-Il-sung-Universität		136 868
7	Spanish (es) Universidad Kim Il-sung		111 052
8	Polish (pl) Uniwersytet im. Kim Ir Sena		66 772
9	Italian (it) Università Kim Il-sung		47 018
10	French (fr) Université Kim Il-sung		45 559

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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 "Kim Il Sung University" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kim Il Sung University		9 257
2	Japanese (ja) 金日成総合大学		2 201
3	Chinese (zh) 金日成综合大学		1 859
4	Russian (ru) Университет имени Ким Ир Сена		1 219
5	Spanish (es) Universidad Kim Il-sung		592
6	Persian (fa) دانشگاه کیم ایل سونگ		532
7	German (de) Kim-Il-sung-Universität		468
8	Turkish (tr) Kim İl-sung Üniversitesi		368
9	Korean (ko) 김일성종합대학		358
10	Italian (it) Università Kim Il-sung		316

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kim Il Sung University		170
2	Chinese (zh) 金日成综合大学		61
3	German (de) Kim-Il-sung-Universität		51
4	Japanese (ja) 金日成総合大学		49
5	Korean (ko) 김일성종합대학		45
6	Russian (ru) Университет имени Ким Ир Сена		38
7	French (fr) Université Kim Il-sung		33
8	Spanish (es) Universidad Kim Il-sung		26
9	Norwegian (no) Kim Il-sung-universitetet		26
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đại học Tổng hợp Kim Nhật Thành		20

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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 "Kim Il Sung University" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kim Il Sung University		6
2	Japanese (ja) 金日成総合大学		2
3	Arabic (ar) جامعة كم إل سونغ		0
4	Belarusian (be) Універсітэт імя Кім Ір Сена		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Университет „Ким Ир Сен“		0
6	Catalan (ca) Universitat Kim Il-sung		0
7	Czech (cs) Kim Ir-senova univerzita		0
8	Danish (da) Kim Il-Sung Universitetet		0
9	German (de) Kim-Il-sung-Universität		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Universitato Kim Il-sung		0

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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 "Kim Il Sung University" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Kim Il Sung University		250
2	Korean (ko) 김일성종합대학		242
3	Chinese (zh) 金日成综合大学		201
4	French (fr) Université Kim Il-sung		199
5	Japanese (ja) 金日成総合大学		159
6	German (de) Kim-Il-sung-Universität		54
7	Russian (ru) Университет имени Ким Ир Сена		51
8	Spanish (es) Universidad Kim Il-sung		48
9	Italian (it) Università Kim Il-sung		46
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đại học Tổng hợp Kim Nhật Thành		40

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جامعة كم إل سونغ
be	Belarusian Універсітэт імя Кім Ір Сена
bg	Bulgarian Университет „Ким Ир Сен“
ca	Catalan Universitat Kim Il-sung
cs	Czech Kim Ir-senova univerzita
da	Danish Kim Il-Sung Universitetet
de	German Kim-Il-sung-Universität
en	English Kim Il Sung University
eo	Esperanto Universitato Kim Il-sung
es	Spanish Universidad Kim Il-sung
et	Estonian Kim Il-sŏngi Ülikool
fa	Persian دانشگاه کیم ایل سونگ
fi	Finnish Kim Il-sungin yliopisto
fr	French Université Kim Il-sung
he	Hebrew אוניברסיטת קים איל-סונג
hu	Hungarian Kim Ir Szen Egyetem
hy	Armenian Կիմ Իր Սենի անվան համալսարան
id	Indonesian Universitas Kim Il-sung
it	Italian Università Kim Il-sung
ja	Japanese 金日成総合大学
ko	Korean 김일성종합대학
la	Latin Universitas Gim Ilseong
lt	Lithuanian Kim Ir Seno universitetas
ms	Malay Universiti Kim Il-sung
nl	Dutch Kim Il-sung Universiteit
no	Norwegian Kim Il-sung-universitetet
pl	Polish Uniwersytet im. Kim Ir Sena
pt	Portuguese Universidade Kim Il-sung
ru	Russian Университет имени Ким Ир Сена
sh	Serbo-Croatian Univerzitet Kim Il-sung
sr	Serbian Универзитет Ким Илсунг
sv	Swedish Kim Il-sung-universitetet
th	Thai มหาวิทยาลัยคิม อิล-ซ็อง
tr	Turkish Kim İl-sung Üniversitesi
uk	Ukrainian Університет імені Кім Ір Сена
uz	Uzbek Pxenyan universiteti
vi	Vietnamese Đại học Tổng hợp Kim Nhật Thành
zh	Chinese 金日成综合大学
zhminnan	Min Nan Kim Ji̍t-sêng Chong-ha̍p Tāi-ha̍k

Best Rank

English: #13151 04.2020

Global: #13996 04.2020

Best Rank

English: #21167 12.2013

Global: #6102 12.2011

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