Lyon

Quality:

Lyon - city of France. This city is the 93^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 195^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Lyon” in English Wikipedia has 85.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 102 references and 37 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 6881^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 195^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4397^th most popular in all topics.

The 1253^rd most popular in AI.

The 93^rd most popular in cities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8519^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6319^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3833^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Lyon” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia (8519^th place) and written by 33 authors in all languages (3833^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Lyon”, its content was written by 1001 registered users of English Wikipedia (6881^st place) and edited by 5978 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1253^rd place).

Lyon is on the 195^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 93^rd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 10734 times in English Wikipedia (1871^st place) and cited 102119 times in all languages (1373^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2085 in August 2001
• Global: #382 in October 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5834 in June 2014
• Global: #2480 in November 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, 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	German (de) Lyon		97.7298
2	French (fr) Lyon		91.1699
3	English (en) Lyon		85.1697
4	Vietnamese (vi) Lyon		71.2707
5	Catalan (ca) Lió		70.3868
6	Chinese (zh) 里昂		69.8258
7	Ukrainian (uk) Ліон		65.32
8	Spanish (es) Lyon		64.1564
9	Basque (eu) Lyon		63.9556
10	Greek (el) Λυών		61.9731

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lyon		12 532 504
2	French (fr) Lyon		12 259 332
3	German (de) Lyon		3 812 549
4	Spanish (es) Lyon		2 854 709
5	Italian (it) Lione		2 378 214
6	Russian (ru) Лион		2 016 941
7	Japanese (ja) リヨン		1 183 448
8	Polish (pl) Lyon		1 131 587
9	Portuguese (pt) Lyon		1 035 598
10	Dutch (nl) Lyon		953 846

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) Lyon		43 468
2	French (fr) Lyon		32 163
3	German (de) Lyon		12 797
4	Spanish (es) Lyon		6 476
5	Russian (ru) Лион		6 061
6	Italian (it) Lione		5 322
7	Polish (pl) Lyon		4 081
8	Japanese (ja) リヨン		3 679
9	Dutch (nl) Lyon		2 747
10	Chinese (zh) 里昂		2 369

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Lyon		1 462
2	English (en) Lyon		1 001
3	German (de) Lyon		523
4	Italian (it) Lione		354
5	Dutch (nl) Lyon		249
6	Spanish (es) Lyon		211
7	Russian (ru) Лион		200
8	Hebrew (he) ליון		128
9	Japanese (ja) リヨン		117
10	Polish (pl) Lyon		111

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	French (fr) Lyon		12
2	English (en) Lyon		9
3	Esperanto (eo) Liono		2
4	Arabic (ar) ليون		1
5	Spanish (es) Lyon		1
6	Basque (eu) Lyon		1
7	Finnish (fi) Lyon		1
8	Italian (it) Lione		1
9	Dutch (nl) Lyon		1
10	Norwegian (no) Lyon		1

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.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information