Kobe

Quality:

Kobe - capital city of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. This city is the 332^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 466^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Kobe” in English Wikipedia has 82.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 78 references and 29 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 466^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5833^rd most popular in AI.

The 332^nd most popular in cities.

In June 2026 the article “Kobe” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Kobe”, its content was written by 722 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3340 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5833^rd place).

Kobe is on the 466^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 332^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 4970 times in English Wikipedia (4931^st place) and cited 41482 times in all languages (4098^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2384 in September 2003
• Global: #705 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4273 in January 2020
• Global: #5103 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, 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	Chinese (zh) 神户市		96.5466
2	English (en) Kobe		82.4881
3	Slovenian (sl) Kobe		72.2115
4	Japanese (ja) 神戸市		69.4449
5	Ukrainian (uk) Кобе		69.249
6	Thai (th) โคเบะ		64.8881
7	Russian (ru) Кобе		63.3061
8	German (de) Kōbe		63.2915
9	Esperanto (eo) Kobeo		58.0704
10	Basque (eu) Kobe		55.3167

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 神戸市		6 584 820
2	English (en) Kobe		6 561 112
3	Chinese (zh) 神户市		1 002 368
4	German (de) Kōbe		881 988
5	Spanish (es) Kōbe		709 133
6	French (fr) Kobe		562 262
7	Russian (ru) Кобе		459 921
8	Italian (it) Kōbe		415 765
9	Polish (pl) Kobe		322 418
10	Portuguese (pt) Kobe		207 517

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		18 301
2	Japanese (ja) 神戸市		18 263
3	Chinese (zh) 神户市		5 948
4	German (de) Kōbe		2 348
5	Russian (ru) Кобе		2 064
6	French (fr) Kobe		1 615
7	Spanish (es) Kōbe		1 578
8	Korean (ko) 고베시		1 218
9	Italian (it) Kōbe		1 197
10	Polish (pl) Kobe		834

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kobe		722
2	Japanese (ja) 神戸市		699
3	French (fr) Kobe		186
4	German (de) Kōbe		171
5	Italian (it) Kōbe		139
6	Dutch (nl) Kobe		117
7	Chinese (zh) 神户市		98
8	Russian (ru) Кобе		91
9	Spanish (es) Kōbe		85
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	Japanese (ja) 神戸市		8
2	English (en) Kobe		2
3	Spanish (es) Kōbe		2
4	Hebrew (he) קובה (יפן)		2
5	Lithuanian (lt) Kobė		1
6	Chinese (zh) 神户市		1
7	Arabic (ar) كوبه		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Kobe		0
9	Belarusian (be) Кобэ		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Кобе		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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