Lagos

Quality:

Lagos - largest city and former capital of Nigeria. This city is the 205^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 143^rd most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Lagos” in English Wikipedia has 95.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 331 references and 63 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8802^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3696^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 143^rd most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9551^st most popular in all topics.

The 4742^nd most popular in AI.

The 205^th most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6782^nd most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4271^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Lagos” was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (6782^nd place) and written by 31 authors in all languages (4271^st place).

Since the creation of article “Lagos”, its content was written by 1246 registered users of English Wikipedia (3696^th place) and edited by 3632 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4742^nd place).

Lagos is on the 143^rd place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 205^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 6835 times in English Wikipedia (3119^th place) and cited 23878 times in all languages (6876^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1082 in December 2021
• Global: #381 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1970 in March 2025
• Global: #3282 in March 2025

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 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) Lagos		100
2	English (en) Lagos		95.5135
3	Chinese (zh) 拉哥斯		92.8853
4	Armenian (hy) Լագոս		91.325
5	Esperanto (eo) Lagoso		90.7624
6	Malay (ms) Lagos		84.124
7	Basque (eu) Lagos		82.4443
8	Persian (fa) لاگوس		66.4452
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Lagos		64.2146
10	Spanish (es) Lagos		64.104

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lagos		14 844 943
2	German (de) Lagos		2 356 115
3	French (fr) Lagos		1 796 754
4	Spanish (es) Lagos		1 471 545
5	Russian (ru) Лагос		1 061 027
6	Italian (it) Lagos		1 014 624
7	Polish (pl) Lagos		733 102
8	Portuguese (pt) Lagos (Nigéria)		631 913
9	Japanese (ja) ラゴス		572 320
10	Dutch (nl) Lagos (Nigeria)		402 567

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) Lagos		60 650
2	German (de) Lagos		7 323
3	Russian (ru) Лагос		6 049
4	French (fr) Lagos		4 522
5	Spanish (es) Lagos		3 800
6	Italian (it) Lagos		3 607
7	Japanese (ja) ラゴス		2 612
8	Polish (pl) Lagos		2 574
9	Chinese (zh) 拉哥斯		2 293
10	Portuguese (pt) Lagos (Nigéria)		2 150

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lagos		1 246
2	German (de) Lagos		297
3	French (fr) Lagos		236
4	Italian (it) Lagos		149
5	Spanish (es) Lagos		135
6	Russian (ru) Лагос		114
7	Dutch (nl) Lagos (Nigeria)		112
8	Norwegian (no) Lagos		63
9	Japanese (ja) ラゴス		62
10	Portuguese (pt) Lagos (Nigéria)		62

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) Lagos		11
2	German (de) Lagos		3
3	Arabic (ar) لاغوس		2
4	Bulgarian (bg) Лагос		2
5	Dutch (nl) Lagos (Nigeria)		2
6	Vietnamese (vi) Lagos		2
7	Azerbaijani (az) Laqos		1
8	Catalan (ca) Lagos		1
9	Czech (cs) Lagos		1
10	Esperanto (eo) Lagoso		1

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

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