List of largest cities

Quality:

List of largest cities - Wikimedia list article. Article "List of largest cities" in English Wikipedia has 88.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 157 references and 10 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 384^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 398^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1548^th most popular in all topics.

The 6054^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1187^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2040^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "List of largest cities" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "List of largest cities", its content was written by 2432 registered users of English Wikipedia (398^th place) and edited by 3152 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6054^th place).

The article is cited 1269 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2079 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #98 in April 2015
• Global: #647 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #246 in October 2014
• Global: #1015 in November 2008

There are 16 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 August 1, 2024 (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	English (en) List of largest cities		88.1262
2	Greek (el) Μεγαλύτερες πόλεις του κόσμου		85.584
3	Hindi (hi) सबसे बड़े शहरों की सूची		82.5
4	Tamil (ta) மிகப்பெரிய நகரங்களின் பட்டியல்		80.3921
5	Persian (fa) فهرست پرجمعیت‌ترین شهرها		78.4783
6	Urdu (ur) دنیا کے سب سے بڑے شہر		77.15
7	Thai (th) รายชื่อนครที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก		67.5516
8	Ukrainian (uk) Міста-мільйонники світу		67.4396
9	Simple English (simple) List of largest cities		64.0941
10	French (fr) Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées		63.8643

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of largest cities		61 912 888
2	Italian (it) Città del mondo per popolazione		4 321 382
3	Persian (fa) فهرست پرجمعیت‌ترین شهرها		1 589 989
4	Turkish (tr) Nüfuslarına göre büyük şehirler listesi		1 421 888
5	German (de) Liste der größten Städte		543 692
6	Ukrainian (uk) Міста-мільйонники світу		383 858
7	Arabic (ar) قائمة أكبر المدن في العالم		380 012
8	Chinese (zh) 世界城市地區人口排序列表		284 993
9	French (fr) Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées		198 539
10	Czech (cs) Seznam největších měst světa		181 066

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) List of largest cities		265 988
2	Italian (it) Città del mondo per popolazione		20 220
3	French (fr) Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées		19 422
4	Turkish (tr) Nüfuslarına göre büyük şehirler listesi		13 753
5	Persian (fa) فهرست پرجمعیت‌ترین شهرها		7 360
6	Czech (cs) Seznam největších měst světa		6 025
7	Chinese (zh) 世界城市地區人口排序列表		3 286
8	Ukrainian (uk) Міста-мільйонники світу		1 969
9	German (de) Liste der größten Städte		1 843
10	Arabic (ar) قائمة أكبر المدن في العالم		1 491

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of largest cities		2 432
2	French (fr) Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées		236
3	Italian (it) Città del mondo per popolazione		145
4	Persian (fa) فهرست پرجمعیت‌ترین شهرها		100
5	Turkish (tr) Nüfuslarına göre büyük şehirler listesi		64
6	Ukrainian (uk) Міста-мільйонники світу		48
7	Chinese (zh) 世界城市地區人口排序列表		38
8	Thai (th) รายชื่อนครที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก		19
9	German (de) Liste der größten Städte		15
10	Czech (cs) Seznam největších měst světa		13

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	Persian (fa) فهرست پرجمعیت‌ترین شهرها		5
2	Czech (cs) Seznam největších měst světa		4
3	English (en) List of largest cities		3
4	Turkish (tr) Nüfuslarına göre büyük şehirler listesi		2
5	Arabic (ar) قائمة أكبر المدن في العالم		1
6	French (fr) Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Міста-мільйонники світу		1
8	German (de) Liste der größten Städte		0
9	Greek (el) Μεγαλύτερες πόλεις του κόσμου		0
10	Hindi (hi) सबसे बड़े शहरों की सूची		0

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

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