Kobe

Quality:

Kobe - capital city of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. This city is the 329^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 456^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Kobe” in English Wikipedia has 82.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 77 references and 28 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 456^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5643^rd most popular in AI.

The 329^th most popular in cities.

In June 2025 the article “Kobe” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Kobe”, its content was written by 716 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3345 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5643^rd place).

Kobe is on the 456^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 329^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 4791 times in English Wikipedia (5035^th place) and cited 39629 times in all languages (4137^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2382 in September 2003
• Global: #705 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4229 in January 2020
• Global: #5065 in March 2011

There are 52 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	Chinese (zh) 神户市		97.1171
2	English (en) Kobe		82.413
3	Slovenian (sl) Kobe		72.5261
4	Ukrainian (uk) Кобе		70.5432
5	Japanese (ja) 神戸市		67.6798
6	Thai (th) โคเบะ		65.8928
7	Russian (ru) Кобе		63.2143
8	German (de) Kōbe		62.9108
9	Esperanto (eo) Kobeo		58.9211
10	Basque (eu) Kobe		55.7401

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 神戸市		6 339 171
2	English (en) Kobe		6 296 849
3	Chinese (zh) 神户市		909 149
4	German (de) Kōbe		834 209
5	Spanish (es) Kōbe		678 866
6	French (fr) Kobe		532 960
7	Russian (ru) Кобе		414 736
8	Italian (it) Kōbe		396 386
9	Polish (pl) Kobe		310 003
10	Portuguese (pt) Kobe		194 552

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) Kobe		22 221
2	Japanese (ja) 神戸市		17 900
3	Chinese (zh) 神户市		6 800
4	Russian (ru) Кобе		2 535
5	German (de) Kōbe		2 366
6	Spanish (es) Kōbe		2 104
7	Italian (it) Kōbe		1 999
8	French (fr) Kobe		1 690
9	Korean (ko) 고베시		1 000
10	Simple English (simple) Kobe, Hyōgo		947

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kobe		716
2	Japanese (ja) 神戸市		675
3	French (fr) Kobe		181
4	German (de) Kōbe		170
5	Italian (it) Kōbe		138
6	Dutch (nl) Kobe		116
7	Chinese (zh) 神户市		97
8	Russian (ru) Кобе		89
9	Spanish (es) Kōbe		83
10	Vietnamese (vi) Kōbe		64

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) Kobe		4
2	Japanese (ja) 神戸市		4
3	Azerbaijani (az) Kobe		1
4	Esperanto (eo) Kobeo		1
5	Spanish (es) Kōbe		1
6	Estonian (et) Kōbe		1
7	Persian (fa) کوبه (شهر)		1
8	Korean (ko) 고베시		1
9	Polish (pl) Kobe		1
10	Serbian (sr) Кобе		1

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

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