List of oldest continuously inhabited cities

Quality:

List of oldest continuously inhabited cities - Wikimedia list article. Article "List of oldest continuously inhabited cities" in English Wikipedia has 71.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 300 references and 20 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 6576^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 5730^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9388^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "List of oldest continuously inhabited cities" was edited by 13 authors in English Wikipedia (5730^th place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (9388^th place).

Since the creation of article "List of oldest continuously inhabited cities", its content was written by 969 registered users of English Wikipedia (6576^th place) and edited by 1305 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 129 times in English Wikipedia and cited 256 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #841 in August 2023
• Global: #5877 in August 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3869 in January 2008
• Global: #9072 in January 2008

There are 12 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 oldest continuously inhabited cities		71.5878
2	Urdu (ur) شہروں کی فہرست بلحاظ قدامت		66.0341
3	Russian (ru) Древнейшие города мира		60.4644
4	Arabic (ar) قائمة أقدم المدن المأهولة في العالم		53.7498
5	Indonesian (id) Daftar kota tertua yang masih terus dihuni		42.0664
6	German (de) Liste historischer Stadtgründungen		39.5338
7	Turkish (tr) Hâlâ yaşanılan en eski şehirler listesi		33.3433
8	Ukrainian (uk) Список найдавніших міст світу з безперервним поселенням		27.4796
9	Portuguese (pt) Lista das cidades mais antigas continuadamente habitadas		25.3834
10	Azerbaijani (az) Dünyanın qədim şəhərləri		15.7505

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of oldest continuously inhabited cities		7 453 505
2	Russian (ru) Древнейшие города мира		1 578 066
3	German (de) Liste historischer Stadtgründungen		764 407
4	Arabic (ar) قائمة أقدم المدن المأهولة في العالم		561 273
5	Portuguese (pt) Lista das cidades mais antigas continuadamente habitadas		327 416
6	Turkish (tr) Hâlâ yaşanılan en eski şehirler listesi		110 091
7	Japanese (ja) 現在まで継続的に人が居住する都市の一覧		51 807
8	Ukrainian (uk) Список найдавніших міст світу з безперервним поселенням		47 376
9	Indonesian (id) Daftar kota tertua yang masih terus dihuni		5 708
10	Azerbaijani (az) Dünyanın qədim şəhərləri		5 239

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 oldest continuously inhabited cities		52 881
2	Russian (ru) Древнейшие города мира		13 920
3	Arabic (ar) قائمة أقدم المدن المأهولة في العالم		3 158
4	German (de) Liste historischer Stadtgründungen		2 803
5	Portuguese (pt) Lista das cidades mais antigas continuadamente habitadas		2 778
6	Turkish (tr) Hâlâ yaşanılan en eski şehirler listesi		757
7	Ukrainian (uk) Список найдавніших міст світу з безперервним поселенням		730
8	Japanese (ja) 現在まで継続的に人が居住する都市の一覧		602
9	Azerbaijani (az) Dünyanın qədim şəhərləri		134
10	Indonesian (id) Daftar kota tertua yang masih terus dihuni		57

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 oldest continuously inhabited cities		969
2	German (de) Liste historischer Stadtgründungen		125
3	Russian (ru) Древнейшие города мира		72
4	Arabic (ar) قائمة أقدم المدن المأهولة في العالم		63
5	Portuguese (pt) Lista das cidades mais antigas continuadamente habitadas		29
6	Turkish (tr) Hâlâ yaşanılan en eski şehirler listesi		23
7	Japanese (ja) 現在まで継続的に人が居住する都市の一覧		10
8	Ukrainian (uk) Список найдавніших міст світу з безперервним поселенням		4
9	Azerbaijani (az) Dünyanın qədim şəhərləri		3
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Lista najstarijih trajno naseljenih gradova		3

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) List of oldest continuously inhabited cities		13
2	Russian (ru) Древнейшие города мира		9
3	Arabic (ar) قائمة أقدم المدن المأهولة في العالم		1
4	German (de) Liste historischer Stadtgründungen		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Dünyanın qədim şəhərləri		0
6	Indonesian (id) Daftar kota tertua yang masih terus dihuni		0
7	Japanese (ja) 現在まで継続的に人が居住する都市の一覧		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Lista das cidades mais antigas continuadamente habitadas		0
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Lista najstarijih trajno naseljenih gradova		0
10	Turkish (tr) Hâlâ yaşanılan en eski şehirler listesi		0

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

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