Place names considered unusual

Quality:

Place names considered unusual - Wikimedia list article. Article “Place names considered unusual” in English Wikipedia has 76.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 70 references and 10 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Place names considered unusual” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Place names considered unusual”, its content was written by 787 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1072 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 278 times in English Wikipedia and cited 376 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #74 in June 2003
• Global: #445 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4402 in June 2015
• Global: #11103 in June 2015

There are 6 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	Finnish (fi) Luettelo epätavallisista maantieteellisistä nimistä		85.601
2	English (en) Place names considered unusual		76.2655
3	Chinese (zh) 奇特的地名		35.7901
4	Esperanto (eo) Listo de interesaj aŭ nekutimaj loknomoj		26.8152
5	Japanese (ja) 珍地名		19.428
6	Korean (ko) 특이한 지명		13.0179

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Place names considered unusual		2 394 398
2	Japanese (ja) 珍地名		880 657
3	Finnish (fi) Luettelo epätavallisista maantieteellisistä nimistä		205 004
4	Korean (ko) 특이한 지명		8 545
5	Chinese (zh) 奇特的地名		5 043
6	Esperanto (eo) Listo de interesaj aŭ nekutimaj loknomoj		4 542

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) Place names considered unusual		17 044
2	Japanese (ja) 珍地名		2 959
3	Finnish (fi) Luettelo epätavallisista maantieteellisistä nimistä		491
4	Chinese (zh) 奇特的地名		79
5	Korean (ko) 특이한 지명		27
6	Esperanto (eo) Listo de interesaj aŭ nekutimaj loknomoj		6

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Place names considered unusual		787
2	Finnish (fi) Luettelo epätavallisista maantieteellisistä nimistä		133
3	Japanese (ja) 珍地名		117
4	Esperanto (eo) Listo de interesaj aŭ nekutimaj loknomoj		15
5	Chinese (zh) 奇特的地名		12
6	Korean (ko) 특이한 지명		8

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) Place names considered unusual		6
2	Esperanto (eo) Listo de interesaj aŭ nekutimaj loknomoj		0
3	Finnish (fi) Luettelo epätavallisista maantieteellisistä nimistä		0
4	Japanese (ja) 珍地名		0
5	Korean (ko) 특이한 지명		0
6	Chinese (zh) 奇特的地名		0

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

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